202 Quotes by Ocean Vuong

I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.

All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough

believing in everything but the harm we're capable of.

What were you before you met me?""I think I was drowning""And what are you now?""Water

We sidestep ourselves in order to move forward.- P53

I don't know if I believe this but that's what it felt like: As if we were to people mining one body, and in doing so, merged, until no corner was left saying I.

The most beautiful part of your bodyis where it’s headed. & remember,loneliness is still time spentwith the world.

Sometimes, when I’m careless, I think survival is easy: you just keep moving forward with what you have, or what’s left of what you were given, until something changes—or you realize, at last, that you can change without disappearing.

A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved.