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“Ma. You once told me that memory is a choice. But if you were god, you'd know it's a flood.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers, saying with our entire curved and silenced selves, more, more, more. I want to insist that are being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“They say nothing lasts forever and I’m writing you in the voice of an endangered species.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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