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“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: beauty, earth

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“Monsterhood is a girl's body you don't belong in.”
― Trang Thanh Tran, They Bloom at Night

tags: body, girlhood, monsters

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“Even someone like me felt utang na loob, that impossible to quantify sense of indebtedness and gratitude, to the people who’d raised me. But where was that magical line between selfishness and independence? Between my family and myself?”
― Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo

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“Because how dare we write our own stories, in our own voices?’ CaZZ answers.

‘True that,’ Tanya says.

‘Banning our books would be their way of erasing us, of making us — and the world we live in — invisible,’ CaZZ says.”
― R. Zamora Linmark, The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart

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“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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