Dalena Tran
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“I was seen—I who had seldom been seen by anyone. I who was taught, by you, to be invisible in order to be safe.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are 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
“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desparation to keep it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“You would tell them that the most useful thing one can do with empty hands is hold on.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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