Vuong Quotes

#1. Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their beds. Eventually, they will pull out their gold bars and invest.

Pham Nhat Vuong

#2. I didn't know the cost
of entering a song - was to lose
your way back.

Ocean Vuong

#3. When they ask you where you're from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you were not born but crawled, headfirst - into the hunger of dogs. My son, tell them the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting.

Ocean Vuong

#4. In order for things to change, YOU MUST change. If you don't change, then nothing will change. IF you will change, EVERYTHING will change for you.

Duc Vuong

#5. I loved him in a way that I knew would never stop, in a way that would hurt forever.

J. Nelle Patrick

#6. I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

Quentin Tarantino

#7. Tyranny over the mind is the most complete and most brutal type of tyranny; every other tyranny begins and ends with it.

Milovan Djilas

#8. Don't we touch each other just to prove we are still here? I was still here once. The

Ocean Vuong

#9. Language excites me. Irrational thought excites me. I spend most of my time listening instead of writing. A shard of language might come: a phrase, a word, an anagram, and I'd just keep it in my pocket, like a little seed, warming in my fist.

Ocean Vuong

#10. Attacking is better than defending.

Pham Nhat Vuong

#11. Me and my band, we love playing live, and I think it shows. We have one of the better live shows in the state, and I think it's because we just love playing live.

Kevin Fowler

#12. Your father is only your father
until one of you forgets. Like how the spine
won't remember its wings
no matter how many times our knees
kiss the pavement. Ocean,
are you listening? The most beautiful part
of your body is wherever
your mother's shadow falls.

Ocean Vuong

#13. Dear God, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through
to get here.

Here. That's all I wanted to be.

I promise.

Ocean Vuong

#14. what becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals?

Ocean Vuong

#15. We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking.

Pham Nhat Vuong

#16. I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.

Erin Morgenstern

#17. Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.

Nenia Campbell

#18. It's like looking at the sun, I worry if I don't look away his image will be burned on my retinas for the rest of my life.

Jaden Wilkes

#19. Memories, like everything else, are momentary.

Santosh Kalwar

#20. Sometimes I ask for too much just to feel my mouth overflow.

Ocean Vuong

#21. How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.

Ocean Vuong

#22. Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

Hayden Fry

#23. Confetti
green, how I want you green.
Green despite the red despite
the rest.

Ocean Vuong

#24. When our lips touched the day closed
into a coffin. In the museum of the heart...

Ocean Vuong

#25. The more times and the more different things you try, the more likely it is that you will succeed.

Brian Tracy

#26. The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

Ocean Vuong