Ocean Vuong

"I am writing because they told me to never write a sentence with because. But I wasn´t trying to make a sentence- I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey."

"Estoy escribiendo porque me han dicho que nunca empiece una frase con porque. Pero no intentaba formar frases: intentaba liberarme. Porque la libertad, me han dicho, no es más que la distancia entre el cazador y su presa."



"To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones."

"Para estar tierno, el peso de tu vida no puede descansar en tus huesos."



"And like a word, I hold no weight in this world yet still carry my own life. And I throw it ahead of me until what I left behind becomes exactly what I'm running toward- like I'm part of a family."

 

Ocean Vuong, en En la tierra somos fugazmente grandiosos (Trad. Jesús Zulaika. Anagrama, 6ta ed. 2023. Edición original: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Penguin Press, NYC, 2019)