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Top 20 Victoria Chang Quotes (2025 Update)

Victoria Chang Quote: “To love anyone means to admit extinction. I tell myself this, so I never fall in love, so that the fire lights just me.”

1. “To love anyone means to admit extinction. I tell myself this, so I never fall in love, so that the fire lights just me.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is grief.”

2. “If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is grief.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn’t know that it’s not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.”

3. “I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn’t know that it’s not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “Before my mother’s death, I sat anywhere. Now I look for the image of the empty chair near the image of the empty table. An image of me sits down. Depression is a glove over the heart. Depression is an image of a glove over the image of a heart.”

4. “Before my mother’s death, I sat anywhere. Now I look for the image of the empty chair near the image of the empty table. An image of me sits down. Depression is a glove over the heart. Depression is an image of a glove over the image of a heart.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “Blame has no face. I have walked on its staircase, around and around, trying to slap its face but only hitting my own cheeks.”

5. “Blame has no face. I have walked on its staircase, around and around, trying to slap its face but only hitting my own cheeks.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “I now know that to be loved as child means to be watched. In high school, I loved when the teacher turned the lights off. A moment to feel loved and unseen at once. I understand now. We can’t be loved when the lights are off.”

6. “I now know that to be loved as child means to be watched. In high school, I loved when the teacher turned the lights off. A moment to feel loved and unseen at once. I understand now. We can’t be loved when the lights are off.”

— Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang Quote: “She switched places with her shadow because suffering changes shape and happens secretly.”

7. “She switched places with her shadow because suffering changes shape and happens secretly.”

— Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang Quote: “The way memory is the ringing after a gunshot. The way we try to remember the gunshot but can’t. The way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.”

8. “The way memory is the ringing after a gunshot. The way we try to remember the gunshot but can’t. The way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.”

— Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang Quote: “As I write, more and more of my cells are replaced by language. When they burn a writer’s body, the smoke will be shaped llike letters.”

9. “As I write, more and more of my cells are replaced by language. When they burn a writer’s body, the smoke will be shaped llike letters.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers.”

10. “My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “Sometimes all I have are words and to write them means they are no longer prayers but are now animals. Other people can hunt them.”

11. “Sometimes all I have are words and to write them means they are no longer prayers but are now animals. Other people can hunt them.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “Blame is just an echo of pain, a veil across the face of the one you blame. I blame God. I want to complain to the boss of God about God. What if the boss of God is rain and the only way to speak to rain is to open your mouth to the sky and drown?”

12. “Blame is just an echo of pain, a veil across the face of the one you blame. I blame God. I want to complain to the boss of God about God. What if the boss of God is rain and the only way to speak to rain is to open your mouth to the sky and drown?”

— Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang Quote: “Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother’s face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face and her face. Maybe it’s the difference between how the moon looks in the sky and how it contorts when a mayfly travels across the pond.”

13. “Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother’s face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face and her face. Maybe it’s the difference between how the moon looks in the sky and how it contorts when a mayfly travels across the pond.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “The way grief takes many forms, as tears or pinwheels. The way the word haystack never conjures up the same image twice. The way we assume all tears taste the same. The way our sadness is plural, but grief is singular.”

14. “The way grief takes many forms, as tears or pinwheels. The way the word haystack never conjures up the same image twice. The way we assume all tears taste the same. The way our sadness is plural, but grief is singular.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “My mother, now covered, was no longer my mother. A covered apple is no longer an apple. A sketch of a person isn’t the person. Somewhere, in the morning, my mother had become the sketch. And I would spend the rest of my life trying to shade her back in.”

15. “My mother, now covered, was no longer my mother. A covered apple is no longer an apple. A sketch of a person isn’t the person. Somewhere, in the morning, my mother had become the sketch. And I would spend the rest of my life trying to shade her back in.”

— Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang Quote: “What’s the rush?“, you said about publishing. I added: “Does the world need another competent book of poems?” Most times, we wouldn’t answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew that we couldn’t scrub poetry off our bodies. And we ourselves feared the greatest death, which was writing merely competent poems.”

16. “What’s the rush?“, you said about publishing. I added: “Does the world need another competent book of poems?” Most times, we wouldn’t answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew that we couldn’t scrub poetry off our bodies. And we ourselves feared the greatest death, which was writing merely competent poems.”

— Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang Quote: “To acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.”

17. “To acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “I know the heart doesn’t really shatter, but I also can no longer feel it.”

18. “I know the heart doesn’t really shatter, but I also can no longer feel it.”

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Victoria Chang Quote: “Depression is a glove over the heart. Depression is an image of a glove over the image of a heart.”

19. “Depression is a glove over the heart. Depression is an image of a glove over the image of a heart.”

— Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang Quote: “When I told my children, the three of us hugged in a circle, burst into tears. As if the tears were already there crying on their own and we, the newly bereaved, exploded into them.”

20. “When I told my children, the three of us hugged in a circle, burst into tears. As if the tears were already there crying on their own and we, the newly bereaved, exploded into them.”

— Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang Quote: “The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What’s left: a hole in the ground the size of violence.”

21. “The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What’s left: a hole in the ground the size of violence.”

— Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang Quote: “The way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.”

22. “The way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.”

— Victoria Chang

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