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haly-reads · 2 years

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september 02, '22: when you come home after exams and see a bookmail waiting for you!

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onthe23rdiyearned · 4 days

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They have a pill for it. They have an industry. They make millions. Did you know people get rich off of sadness? I want to meet the milionaire of American sadness. I want to look him in the eye, shake his hand, and say, "It's been an honor to serve my country."

On Earth We're Brierly Gorgeous, Ocean Voung

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familiarquotation · 8 months

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"I guess what I mean is sometimes I don't know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?"

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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ashe-withane · 2 months

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god. I started reading On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

not even twenty pages in. I keep tearing up.

I had to stop for a bit because I didn’t want to cry on the bus.

#ocean vuong #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #reading #this novel is beautiful #idk maybe it’s cause my mom is a Vietnamese immigrant #or maybe ocean vuong is just too good #both. it’s probably both

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saneperhaps · 4 months

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Sometimes I don’t know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound.

I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was.

Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?

🖋️-Ocean Vuong (On Earth we're briefly gorgeous)

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andrumedus · 2 years

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I wanted to know him through and through, by that very hate. Because that’s what you give anyone who sees you, I thought. You take their hatred head-on, and you cross it, like a bridge, to face them, to enter them.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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girljeremystrong · 2 years

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hello????

#my bestie right there!#GREAT week for book people #ocean vuong #you know the day i met him (i met him and he wished me a happy birthday) he said he had just finished writing his next novel the day before #in ITALY #WHERE HE ALSO WROTE ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS #and that was sep 16

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outstanding-quotes · 2 years

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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

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pensivegladiola · 1 year

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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

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vuongobssd · 2 years

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What were you before you met me?"

"I think I was drowning"

"And what are you now?"

"Water"

-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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a-reads · 2 years

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“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”

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sohnserif · 2 years

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Excerpts from 'On Earth we're briefly gorgeous' by Ocean Vuong.

It's a beautiful read indeed!

#ocean vuong #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #quotes #books and novels #coming of age #oriental #books #novels #daily list

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familiarquotation · 8 months

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"I want to insist that our being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it?"

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

#ocean vuong #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #words #quotes #daily quotes #quote #quotations #book quotes #book #books #novels #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt books

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heyyyharry · 2 years

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