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“Did you know people get rich off of sadness? I want to meet the millionaire of American sadness. I want to look him in the eye, shake his hand, and say, 'it's been an honor to serve my country.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“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
“I am writing you from inside a body that used to be yours. Which is to say, I am writing as a son.”
― 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
“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
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