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“For the first time back then, I thought about everything seriously. The past and the future, both equally unknowable, and also this ongoing situation that the consulates call "transitory" but that we know in everyday language as "the present.”
― Transit
― Transit
“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
“That's what I wanted—not merely the body, desirable as it was, but its will to grow into the very world that rejects its hunger.”
― 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
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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