A review by anshikatrivedi_
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

Human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.

To much joy - i swear - is lost in our desperation to keep it 

In a world myriad as ours, to gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly.