“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“When they ask you where you’re from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you were not born but crawled, headfirst— into the hunger of dogs. My son, tell them the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting.”
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
“I read many books, I saw many, many movies. I watched other lives, only through a window.”
― City of Night
― City of Night
“Are the dead restored? The books say no, the night shouts yes”
― Ask the Dust
― Ask the Dust
“Remember: The rules, like streets, can only take you to known places. Underneath the grid is a field-it was always there-where to be lost is never wrong, but simply more.
As a rule, be more.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
As a rule, be more.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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