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“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“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.
I hate and love your battered hands for what they can never be.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
I hate and love your battered hands for what they can never be.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can’t, at last, teach me how to touch my dead.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“What is a country but a life sentence?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I looked between my legs and saw his chin moving to work the act into what it was, what it always has been: a kind of mercy. To be clean again. To be good again...
To be reclaimed by that want, to be baptized by its pure need. That's what I was.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
To be reclaimed by that want, to be baptized by its pure need. That's what I was.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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