Justine Ramos

“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“The cruelest walls are made of glass.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous