“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“The thing is, I don't want my sadness to be othered from me just as I don't want my happiness to be othered. They're both mine. I made them, dammit.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Ma, to speak in our mother tongue is to speak only partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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