Each of Us a Desert Quotes

“We stretch ourselves: to fit within the roles we are given. To make ourselves look better to those around us. To convince one another that we are good people in a world so vacant. Each of us a desert.”
― Mark Oshiro, Each of Us a Desert

“I would rather make another terrible decision than live knowing that I hadn't tried.”
― Mark Oshiro, Each of Us a Desert

“All our myths were different. Did that make them lies? Or were we simply trying to understand the horrors that you had given us?”
― Mark Oshiro, Each of Us a Desert

“There was comfort in knowing that our guardian had not left us, but I still had to distract myself in order to remain hopeful.”
― Mark Oshiro, Each of Us a Desert

“I believe that there is too much of me for you ever to take. I believe I am more important than the role you cast me into,”
― Mark Oshiro, Each of Us a Desert

“The sound of sunlight is the gentle scurrying of lizards and mice, desperate to find shade and comfort. It's the earth, groaning and creaking as it wakes up, as the moisture within it is pulled away, cracking and breaking the soil. It is the scratching echo of our feet pressing.”
― Mark Oshiro, Each of Us a Desert