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“Isn’t that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“It's not fair that the word laughter is trapped inside slaughter.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Do you remember the happiest day of your life? What about the saddest? Do you ever wonder if sadness and happiness can be combined, to make a deep purple feeling, not good, not bad, but remarkable simply because you didn't have to live on one side or the other?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I spend most of my time crying and praying for that bookish Moscow girl who doesn't exist any more.”
― Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
― Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
“There’s not much humanity in a human being — that’s what war taught me.”
― Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
― Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
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