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Top 450 Ocean Vuong Quotes (2025 Update)
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Ocean Vuong Quote: “The way the barrel, aimed at the sky, must tighten around a bullet to make it speak.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Phosphorescent streaks raked up the purple, light-polluted sky and shredded into huge explosions that reverberated through our apartment.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Show me how ruin makes a home out of hip bones.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “You get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eye staring back from the other side-waiting.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Under my fingers, the stretch marks above his knees, on his shoulders, and the base of his spine shone silver and new. He was a boy breaking out and into himself at once. That’s what I wanted-not merely the body, desirable as it was, but its will to grow into the very world that rejects its hunger.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The body was made soft to keep us from loneliness.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “When commencing his mass bombing campaign in North Vietnam, General Curtis LeMay, then chief of staff of the US Air Force, said he planned on bombing the Vietnamese “back into the Stone Ages.” To destroy a people, then, is to set them back in time.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Although it’s only three in the morning, the lampshade makes the room feel like the last moments of a sinister sunset. Under the bulb’s electric hum, Paul and I spot each through the doorway. He wipes his eyes with the palm of one hand and waves me over with the other.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “It was a greyish Sunday. All morning the sky had threatened downpour. The kind of day, I had hoped, where the bond between two people might be decided on easily – the weather being so bleak we would see each other, you and I, with relief, a familiar face made more luminous than we had remembered in the backdrop of dreary light.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “It was 2006 or 1865 or .327. What a time to be alive! they said, this time louder, more assault rifles.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “In his backyard, an empty dirt field beside a freeway overpass, I watched Trevor aim his .32 Winchester at a row of paint cans lined on an old park bench. I did not know then what I know now: to be an American boy, and then an American boy with a gun, is to move from one end of a cage to another.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Eat’, she says. ‘Swallow. Your bruises are inside it now. Swallow and it won’t hurt anymore.’ And so he eats. He is eating still.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I was a boy, which meant I was a murderer of my childhood.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I was devoured, it seemed, not by a person, a Trevor, so much as by desire itself. To be reclaimed by that want, to be baptized by its pure need. That’s what I was.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I want to take care of our planet because I need a beautiful graveyard.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “We leave the Dunkin’ Donuts heavier with what we know of each other.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I stared at my feet, at the shoes you bought me, the ones with red lights that flashed on the soles when I walked... my sneakers erupted with silent flares: the world’s smallest ambulances, going nowhere.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “When our lips touched the day closed into a coffin. In the museum of the heart there are two headless people building a burning house.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I let the mirror hold those flaws – because for once, drying, they were not wrong to me but something that was wanted, that was sought and found among a landscape as enormous as the one I had been lost in all this time.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Whether we went to or not, we are traveling in a spiral, we are creating something new from what is gone.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Why do all my books leave me empty-handed?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “A mother’s love neglects pride the way fire neglects the cries of what it burns.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Let every river envy our mouths. Let every kiss hit the body like a season.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Even if color is nothing but what the light reveals, that nothing has laws, and a boy on a pink bike must learn, above all else, the law of gravity.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “What if my sadness is actually my most brutal teacher?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “My sneakers erupted with silent flares: the world’s smallest ambulances, going nowhere.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I know you believe in reincarnation. I don’t know if I do but I hope it’s real. Because then maybe you’ll come back here next time around. Maybe you’ll be a girl and maybe your name will be Rose, and you’ll have a room full of books with parents who will read you bedtime stories in a country not touched by war. Maybe then, in that life and in this future, you’ll find this book and you’ll know what happened to us. And you’ll remember me. Maybe.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “There were colors, Ma. Yes, there were colors I felt when I was with him.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “You were born, the woman thinks, because no one else was coming.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “On the screen, a tiny red Mario jumped from platform to platform. If Mario fell off, he would have to start the level over, from the beginning. This was also called dying.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “And I let him run his mind. I let him empty. I didn’t stop him because you don’t stop nothing when you’re nine.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “And because denial, fabrication – storytelling – was her way of staying one step ahead of her life, how could any of us tell her she was wrong?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Because the year is a distance we’ve traveled in circles.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “For a moment almost too brief to matter, this made sense – that three people on the floor, connected to each other by touch, made something like the word family.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “My son, even tomorrow you will have today. Don’t you know?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “You want to tell him it’s okay that the night is also a grave we climb out of.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “What if it wasn’t the crash that made us, but the debris?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “One does not “pass” in America, it seems, without English.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “He stands with one foot on the other, as if touching less of the basement meant he was less inside it. He closes his eyes. This is my superpower, he thinks: to make a dark even darker than what’s around me. He stops crying.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “It was an accident, my beauty revealed to me.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Maybe, like you, I was one of those people who loves the world most when I’m rock-bottom in my fast car going nowhere.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “What if my sadness is actually my most brutal teacher? And the lesson is always this: You don’t have to be like the buffaloes. You can stop.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The strays beyond the railroad are barking, which means something, a rabbit or possum, has just slipped out of its life and into the world.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Lest we forget, a morgue is also a community center.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “How every lullaby began with wailing, as if pain could not exit the body any other way.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Did you ever feel colored-in when a boy found you with his mouth? What if the body, at its best, is only longing for a body? The blood racing to the heart only to be sent back out, filling the routes, the once empty channels, the miles it takes to take us towards each other.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “How many kisses have we crushed to our lips in prayer – only to pick up the pieces?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I’m not high, officer, I just don’t believe in time.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I don’t know if it was him or me who shifted. But the space between us grew thinner and thinner.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “It was the part where Eva pours gasoline on her drug-doomed son and lights the match in an act of love and mercy I hope to both be capable of – and never know.”
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