

“For all policemen were bright enough to know who they were working for, and they were not working, anywhere in the world, for the powerless.”
― Another Country
― Another Country

“What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Funny how an NDN "love you" sounds more like, "I'm in pain with you.”
― Jonny Appleseed
― Jonny Appleseed

“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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