Lu Aguila

“Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“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.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn’t change its nature. This isn’t Beauty and the Beast where my kiss would transform the monster to a prince. If anything, it’s Shrek, and his kiss brings out the ogre in me.”
― Eliza Crewe, Crushed

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
― Vikram Chandra