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Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Book by Ocean Vuong · 7 quotes · Poetry, Intimacy, Life

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“Don't we touch each other just to prove we're still here?”

Poetry Intimacy

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“If we ever make it to shore, he says, I will name our son after this water. I will learn to love a monster”

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“I’ll tell you how we’re wrong enough to be forgiven. How one night, after backhanding mother, then taking a chain saw to the kitchen table, my father went to kneel in the bathroom until we heard his muffled cries through the walls. & so I learned—that a man in climax was the closest thing to surrender.”

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“Some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don't know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt / the mind forgetting / the body's crime of living”

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“God must be a season, grandma said, looking out at the blizzard drowning her garden. My footsteps on the sidewalk were the smallest flights. Dear god, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through to get here. Here. That's all I wanted to be. I promise.”

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“Memory erases into music”

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“I want to leave no one behind. To keep& be kept. The way a field turns its secrets into peonies. The way light keeps its shadow by swallowing it.”

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