“They will want you to succeed, but never more than them. They will write their names on your leash and call you necessary, call you urgent.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“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
“Every day it gets a little easier… But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier.”
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“How can knowing something be sinful?”
― La Belle Sauvage
― La Belle Sauvage
“All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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