TJ
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“You earn your place beside someone by not walking away. Even when all you want to do is run.”
― Take What You Can Carry
― Take What You Can Carry
“Through the lightless window of a street-level apartment, a man's voice in Arabic. I recognized the word Allah. I knew it was a prayer by the tone he used to lift it, as if the tongue was the smallest arm from which a word like that could be offered.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Because that’s what a sister is: a piece of yourself you can finally love, because it’s in someone else.”
― The Space Between Worlds
― The Space Between Worlds
“They were two strangers holding each other for the night, and given the vast timeline of the universe, the difference between a night together and a lifetime seemed pretty much negligible.”
― Shark Heart
― Shark Heart
“Your hands are hideous—and I hate everything that made them that way. I hate how they are the wreck and reckoning of a dream.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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