“I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“How could I say that we, after all, are so close, the shadows of our hands, on two different pages, merging?”
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“I want you to say everything, anything. I want to have your thoughts, I want to bottle them, I want to put them in my drawer for safekeeping.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“No star burns forever.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“A new immigrant, within two years, will come to know that the salon is, in the end, a place where dreams become calcified knowledge of what it means to be awake in American bones—with or without citizenship—aching, toxic, and underpaid. I hate and love your battered hands for what they can never be.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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