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“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“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, an individual life is so short, a blink, 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.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I am writing you from inside a body that used to be yours. Which is to say, I am writing as a son.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“If the Devil is poverty, and hunger, and grief, then yes, I think they know the Devil.”
― The Familiars
― The Familiars
“You once told me that the 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.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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