Lucía’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."

"My nails blackening with my country. My country dissolving on my tongue. I remember cupping the ash and writing the words live live live on the foreheads of the three women sitting in the room. How the ash eventually hardened into ink on a blank page. How there’s ash on this very page. How there’s enough for everyone."

They have a pill for it. They have an industry. They make millions. Did you know people get rich off of sadness? I want to meet the millionaire of American sadness. I want to look him in the eye, shake his hand, and say, “It’s been an honor to serve my country.”

"Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined"