Isabela Paro’s Reviews > On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous > Status Update

"It's in these moments, next to you, that I envy words for doing what we can never do - how they can tell all of themselves simply by standing still, simply by being. Imagine I could lie down beside you and my whole body, every cell, radiates a clear, singular meaning, not so much a writer as a word pressed down beside you."

"It was everything I hid from, [...] And yet, I stayed. I let the mirror hold those flaws - because for once, drying, they were not wrong to me but something that was wanted, that was sought and found among a landscape as enormous as the one I had been lost in all this time. Because the thing about beauty is that it's only beautiful outside of itself."

"Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are. To be or not to be. That is the question.
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A question, yes, but not a choice."