“success is a lottery—just as survival today can look like a lottery, too. If you’re super lucky,”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
“To use Amazon—which I did regularly for years with full knowledge of its labor practices—is to accept and embrace a world in which everything is worth as little as possible; even, and maybe particularly, people.”
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“your back had been mangled by the factory, mangled by the life you were forced to live, by the life that wasn’t yours, that wasn’t yours because you never got to live a life of your own, because you lived on the outskirts of your life — because of all that you stayed at home, and usually they were the ones who came over.”
― Qui a tué mon père
― Qui a tué mon père
“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Men praise me, I dream a little, they insult me, I scarcely show surprise. Then I forget, and smile at the man who insulted me, or am too courteous in greeting the person I love.”
― The Sea Close By
― The Sea Close By
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