Hannah Guglielmana’s Reviews > On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous > Status Update

“because the thing about beauty is that it’s only beautiful outside itself.”

“i remember it all because how can you forget anything about the day you first found yourself beautiful?”

“what if the body, at its best, is only a longing for body? The blood racing to the heart only to be sent back out, filling the routes, the once empty channels, the miles it takes to take us toward each other. why did i feel more myself while reaching for him, my hand midair, than i did having touched him”
ocean you’ll be hearing from my lawyer

now that i really get it it’s slaying

“the boy from whom i learned there was something even more brutal and total than work-want.”
gay?

“ma. you once told me that memory is a choice but if you were god, you’d know it’s a flood.”
this book = GREAT PTSD rep

“because a bullet without a body is a song without ears.”

lan seems to be in a never ending ptsd episode. she is always there, in vietnam, during the war. its making me safddd