“To destroy a people, then, is to set them back in time.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Nothing is just anything.”
― La Belle Sauvage
― La Belle Sauvage
“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
“Remember: The rules, like streets, can only take you to known places.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“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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