ok so crying over a book is one of the most prominent sign of compassion for humanity. you’re crying over someone who isn’t really there, doesn’t really exist, but you still feel for them as if you've known them your entire life.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
~ Ocean Vuong, On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
The Birth of Venus (2019). Version edit by @laitdecocostudio. for new Collection 2019.
ocean vuong / @nolanisms (via) / novo amor / looking for langston (1989, dir. isaac julien, via) / jas ratchford / evie hilliar (via) / broken social scene
poetry is so weird. sometimes i read a poem and i’m like eh, and sometimes i read that same poem and start seeing shrimp colors
‘you okay?’ nah dude i want to be mysterious and enigmatic but instead i'm weird and grotesque and i never shut up.
bookstore cats...the cutest!
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
-Oscar Wilde
idk why the line “to love another person is to see the face of god” was ever written when the same effect could have been achieved by shooting me in the face
“When you come back, you will not be you. And I may not be I.”
— E.M. Forster // The Other Boat (via qvotable)