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I was never cut out to be: the picturesque location and poetic lifestyle, precariously parted hair and charity shop camel coats; thick golfer vests and over polished boots, striding the narrow streets of Durham as if I were written by Donna ...more
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Ocean Vuong
“It’s the chemicals in our brains, they say. I got the wrong chemicals, Ma. Or rather, I don’t get enough of one or the other. They have a pill for it. They have an industry. They make millions. Did you know people get rich off of sadness? I want to meet the millionaire of American sadness. I want to look him in the eye, shake his hand, and say, “it’s been an honor to serve my country.”

The thing is, I don’t want my sadness to be othered from me just as I don’t want my happiness to be othered. They’re both mine. I made them, dammit. What if the elation I feel is not another “bipolar episode” but something I fought hard for? Maybe I jump up and down and kiss you too hard on the neck when I learn, upon coming home, that it’s pizza night because sometimes pizza night is more than enough, is my most faithful and feeble beacon. What if I’m running outside because the moon tonight is children’s-book huge and ridiculous over the pines, the sight of it a strange sphere of medicine?
It’s like when all you’ve been seeing before you is a cliff and then this bright bridge appears out of nowhere, and you run fast across it knowing, sooner or later, there’ll be another cliff on the other side. 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, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong
“Did you know people get rich off of sadness? I want to meet the millionaire of American sadness. I want to look him in the eye, shake his hand, and say, 'it's been an honor to serve my country.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

M.L. Rio
“You know, you scare the hell out of me [...] I don't know, it's like, I look at you and suddenly the sonnets make sense.”
M.L. Rio

M.L. Rio
“James laughed brokenly, and I felt something deep between my lungs crack clean in two.”
M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio
“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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