Grethe’s Reviews > On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous > Status Update

”A new immigrant, within two years, will come to know that the salon is, in the end, a place where dreams become the calcified knowledge of what it means to be awake in American bones - with or without citizenship - aching, toxic and underpaid.”

”The olive tag stitched to the boy’s chest frames a word. Although the woman can not read it, she knows it signals a name, something given by a mother or a father, something weightless you carry forever, like a heartbeat.”

”I ran until I forgot I was ten, until my heartbeat was all I could hear of myself.”

”Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”