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A review by gatinhosr
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
5.0
“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, and individual life is so short, a blink of an eye, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you’re born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
“Ma, I don’t know if you’ve made it this far in this letter - or if you’ve made it here at all. You always tell me it’s too late for you to read, with your poor liver, your exhausted bones, that after everything you’ve been through, you’d just like to rest now. That reading is a privilege you made possible for me with what you lost. I know you believe in reincarnation. I don’t know if I do but I hope it’s real. Because then maybe you’ll come back here next time around. Maybe you’ll be a girl and maybe your name will be Rose again, and you’ll have a room full of books with parents who will read you bedtime stories in a country not touched by war. Maybe then, in that life and in this future, you’ll find this book and you’ll know what happened to us. And you’ll remember me. Maybe.”
this was the most well written book i’ve ever read in my entire life and i’m sad i took so much time to read it but life just got a bit busy. Would like to read it again to fully experience it
“Ma, I don’t know if you’ve made it this far in this letter - or if you’ve made it here at all. You always tell me it’s too late for you to read, with your poor liver, your exhausted bones, that after everything you’ve been through, you’d just like to rest now. That reading is a privilege you made possible for me with what you lost. I know you believe in reincarnation. I don’t know if I do but I hope it’s real. Because then maybe you’ll come back here next time around. Maybe you’ll be a girl and maybe your name will be Rose again, and you’ll have a room full of books with parents who will read you bedtime stories in a country not touched by war. Maybe then, in that life and in this future, you’ll find this book and you’ll know what happened to us. And you’ll remember me. Maybe.”
this was the most well written book i’ve ever read in my entire life and i’m sad i took so much time to read it but life just got a bit busy. Would like to read it again to fully experience it