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“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“What you are now is not what you’ve always been, nor is it what you always will be. You are a snake. Shed your skin if it no longer serves you. Transform into something different. Something better.”
― Blood & Honey
― Blood & Honey
“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
“Hers the stillness of the forest, rooted restlessness, oak-slow, pine-quick, a seething patience. Hers the stillness of ice walls that face the sea, clear and deep, blue secrets held cold against the truth of the world, a patience of aeons stacked against a sudden fall. Hers the stillness of a sorrow-born babe unmoving in its crib. And of the mother, frozen in her discovery, fleeting and forever.”
― Red Sister
― Red Sister
Umazes’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Umazes’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
593 books
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19 friends
28 books
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1 friend
1,096 books
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52 friends
13 books
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4 friends
0 books
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1 friend
115 books
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4 friends
19 books
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8 friends
328 books
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7 friends
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