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> [“Green waves surround this black rock where I sit turning bones to sonatas. Fingers blurred, I play what I know from listening to orchards unleash”](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/)

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## 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/)

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