

“You are embarrassed about your blood, its redness, the way it is just coming out of you with no concern for anyone’s feelings. You are (…) embarrassed to be alive.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House

“But when I turn around to see the panting boy, to forgive him, at last, for trying and failing to be good, there’s no one there”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“What if the body, at its best, is only a longing for body?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“What do you call the animal that, finding the hunter, offers itself to be eaten? A martyr? A weakling? No, a beast gaining the rare agency to stop. Yes, the period in the sentence—it’s what makes us human, Ma, I swear. It lets us stop in order to keep going.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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