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“Cleopatra saw the same sunset. Ain't that crazy? Like everybody who was ever alive only seen one sun.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“And because I was six, I remember believing color was a kind of happiness—so I took the brightest shades in the crayon box and filled my sad cow with purple, orange, red, auburn, magenta, pewter, fuchsia, glittered grey, lime green.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Maybe a survivor is the last one to come home, the final monarch that lands on a branch already weighted with ghosts.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“The monarchs that fly south will not make it back north. Each departure, then, is final. Only their children return; only the future revisits the past.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous