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“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

“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

“The spine won't remember its wings no matter how many times our knees kiss the pavement”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“This also means nothing. I know. But some nothings change everything after them”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous