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The Moral Judgement of Butterflies

K. Eltinaé

Top 10 Best Quotes

“¨Half dreaming you’re a zebra because the marrow in your bones won’t settle for a land?¨”

“¨Everything I bought for that next life is on sale but I still don't fit.¨”

“Your dignity will never know cages and days without showering. Will never know the shame of running from a place because you weren't born disposable. If you feel threatened about living in a country full of sleek, dark, and beautiful creatures arriving on boats smiling and glowing though nobody has welcomed them, stop watching the news. Stay safe, with truths that bloom from kindness.”

“You belong anywhere you can flee to and return from in one piece”

“Why then do our answers about love only survive in pictures? Why can a voice hijack so many passengers but never quietly land?”

“What else is loneliness but a lower smoking on a ledge near a bed that always smells of then?”

“We were born to chase our truths in transit.”

“We wait too long for dowries, for the sweat of strangers, to remember our own perfume.”

“We are born borderless until we touch”

“The wind scatters my tears, laughs like a djinn in the fields when they bloom.”

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