“I did not know then what I know now: to be an American boy, and then an American boy with a gun, is to move from one end of a cage to another.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I don't know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was.”
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“I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my
eyes, the word for love is Yêu.
And the word for weakness is Yếu.
How you say what you mean changes what you say.
Some call this prayer, I call it watch your mouth.”
― Time Is a Mother
eyes, the word for love is Yêu.
And the word for weakness is Yếu.
How you say what you mean changes what you say.
Some call this prayer, I call it watch your mouth.”
― Time Is a Mother
“What if it wasn’t the crash that made us, but the debris?”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
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