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“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“The colors this morning have the frayed tint of something already leaving.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Where does it go, all this happening? The books that took root as pictures and sounds in my mind - sensations sometimes absolutely like life - are gone as soon as the book is finished. Same as my days. It's like a fuse is burning just steps behind me, reducing my lived life to ash.”
― Bellevue Square
― Bellevue Square
“He loves me, he loves me not, we are taught to say, as we tear the flower from its flowerness. To arrive at love, then, is to arrive through obliteration. Eviscerate me, we mean to say, and I'll tell you the truth.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“and you know, I actually love it here, even if it frustrates the hell out of me, I'm not sure I want to become a foreigner anywhere else
so try it out like a new outfit that may or may not suit, life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand”
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so try it out like a new outfit that may or may not suit, life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand”
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Alexandra’s 2024 Year in Books
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