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Hit Parade of Tears

by Izumi Suzuki

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Dalena’s Quotes

“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.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: body, desire, queer

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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.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: immigrant, otherness, war

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“You would tell them that the most useful thing one can do with empty hands is hold on.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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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.”
― Anna Seghers, Transit

tags: bureaucracy, foreigner, immigrant, limbo, visa

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