--- title: "2 Beautiful body Quotes By Ocean Vuong" description: "2 Beautiful body quotes by Ocean Vuong. Plus more from Ocean Vuong and more Beautiful body sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/468/ocean-vuong-23952_beautiful-body_your-father-is-only-your-father-until-on_793912.jpg" --- > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/your-father-is-only-your-father-until-one-of-you-forgets-like-how-the/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/468/ocean-vuong-23952_beautiful-body_your-father-is-only-your-father-until-on_793912.jpg) > [“The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/the-most-beautiful-part-of-your-body-is-where-it-s-headed/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db9/ocean-vuong-23952_beautiful_the-most-beautiful-part-of-your-body-is_844100.jpg) ## More by Ocean Vuong > [“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers, saying with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/it-is-no-accident-ma-that-the-comma-resembles-a-fetus-that-curve-of/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“Green waves surround this black rock where I sit turning bones to sonatas. Fingers blurred, I play what I know from listening to orchards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/green-waves-surround-this-black-rock-where-i-sit-turning-bones-to/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“I watched, through the keyhole, not the man showering, but the rain falling through him: guitar strings snapping over his globed shoulders”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/i-watched-through-the-keyhole-not-the-man-showering-but-the-rain/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“Brooklyn’s too cold tonight & all my friends are three years away. My mother said I could be anything I wanted—but I chose to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/brooklyn-s-too-cold-tonight-all-my-friends-are-three-years-away-my/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/your-father-is-only-your-father-until-one-of-you-forgets-like-how-the/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“As if my finger, / tracing your collarbone / behind closed doors, / was enough / to erase myself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/as-if-my-finger-tracing-your-collarbone-behind-closed-doors-was/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/the-most-beautiful-part-of-your-body-is-where-it-s-headed/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“God must be a season, grandma said, looking out at the blizzard drowning her garden. My footsteps on the sidewalk were the smallest flights.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/god-must-be-a-season-grandma-said-looking-out-at-the-blizzard/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“Gravity breaking our kneecaps just to show us the sky.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/gravity-breaking-our-kneecaps-just-to-show-us-the-sky/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“I hold the gun & wonder if an entry wound in the night would make a hole wide as morning”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/i-hold-the-gun-wonder-if-an-entry-wound-in-the-night-would-make-a/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/in-a-world-myriad-as-ours-the-gaze-is-a-singular-act-to-look-at/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. We travel through time in a circular trajectory,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/some-people-say-history-moves-in-a-spiral-not-the-line-we-have-come/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“use it to prove how the stars were always what we knew they were: the exit wounds of every misfired word”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/use-it-to-prove-how-the-stars-were-always-what-we-knew-they-were-the/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“I am writing you from inside a body that used to be yours. Which is to say, I am writing as a son.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/i-am-writing-you-from-inside-a-body-that-used-to-be-yours-which-is-to/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ocean-vuong/when-they-ask-you-where-you-re-from-tell-them-your-name-was-fleshed/) [Ocean Vuong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ocean-vuong/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beautiful-body/ocean-vuong/#itemlist", "name": "2 Beautiful body Quotes By Ocean Vuong", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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? 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