Amber Sparks Quotes

#1. She wants him like she wanted to fly from the rooftop when she was ten, wants to throw her whole body into that catastrophe until she is utterly exhausted and dried up.

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#2. They asked you the name of the god you worshipped and you replied, "Myself.

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#3. She doesn't know about metaphors but she knows that even the smallest human vessel has boundless storage for sorrow.

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#4. Fingerprint, he writes. A map to mark the spaces you've inhabited. A map you make yourself, quadrant by quadrant, inch by inch, until the landscape of your life looks like a vast and unexplored terrain. Here there be monsters, it will say.

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#5. Death is the opposite of lonely, and lonely is the only thing the janitor owns. It is the only thing that's hers. And that makes loneliness beautiful, out here among the cold and bright beginnings.

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#6. There were no books in the Afterwards, which the people thought was some serious bullshit.

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#7. She isn't sure whether she believes in God or not, though she always told her pastor she did. She isn't sure any woman ought to believe in God.

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