“They say nothing lasts forever and I’m writing you in the voice of an endangered species.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. ”
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“What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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