Hannah

“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

“They will want you to succeed, but never more than them. They will write their names on your leash and call you necessary, call you urgent.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Life is in the living," say the brass. "There is no way to fail.”
― Tommy Butler, Before You Go

“It’s a beautiful country, she’s been told, depending on who you are.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous