Cristine (aaron warner’s version) ♡’s Reviews > On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous > Status Update

“To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”

“They say nothing lasts forever but they’re just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”

“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?”

“Although he could not read chapter books yet, he knew how far a story could take him, and holding these books meant there were at least two more worlds he could eventually step into.”

“I got what I wanted—a boy swimming toward me. Except I was no shore, Ma. I was driftwood trying to remember what I had broken from to get here.”

“Swallow. Your bruises are inside it now. Swallow and it won’t hurt anymore.” And so he eats. He is eating still.”

“What a terrible life, I think now, to have to move so fast just to stay in one place.”

“It’s a beautiful country, she’s been told, depending on who you are.”