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Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

Top 10 Best Quotes

“How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part”

“How come the past tense is always longer?”

“I’ve plagiarized my life to give you the best of me”

“I want to take care of our planet because I need a beautiful graveyard.”

“What we’ll always have is something we lost”

“Then it came to me, my life. I remembered my life the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree. & I was free.”

“How you can love the world until there’s nothing left to love but yourself.”

“Because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into American letters, turns into gold. Our sorrow Midas touched. Napalm with a rainbow afterglow. Unlike feelings, blood gets realer when you feel it. I'm trying to be real but it costs too much.”

“I promise you, I was here. I felt things that made death so large it was indistinguishable from air—and I went on destroying inside it like wind in a storm.”

“They say the earth spins and that’s why we fall but everyone knows it’s the music.”

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