8 beautiful quotes by Ocean Vuong. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Ocean Vuong
“What were you before you met me?""I think I was drowning""And what are you now?""Water”
“The most beautiful part of your bodyis where it’s headed. & remember,loneliness is still time spentwith the world.”
“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 ...
“All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away f...
“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the hi...
“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.Let no one mistake us f...
“I am writing you from inside a body that used to be yours. Which is to say, I am writing as a son.”
“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mother...
