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Ocean Vuong
“What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong
“As a girl, you watched, from a banana grove, your schoolhouse collapse after an American napalm raid. At five, you never stepped into a classroom again. Our mother tongue, then, is no mother at all—but an orphan. Our Vietnamese a time capsule, a mark of where your education ended, ashed. Ma, to speak in our mother tongue is to speak only partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong
“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong
“I'm sorry I keep saying How are you? when I really mean Are you happy?
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong
“I run thinking I will outpace it all, my will to change being stronger than my fear of living.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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