The Power of Amie Martine
Laurie Perez
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Kingdoms rise and fall. I can be steady.”
“Why do we romanticize the virgin spaces? Land where no one’s walked or built or puked or fought over its uses? Land never once in its existence beholden to anyone or anything, forming timelessly, inured of us. We want it to seduce the cluttered world of today out from under us.”
“This is catharsis. The act taps in, meets them where they are. It’s confusing, hollow. So incredibly sad. And so we’ll stay inside it a while. Not picking it apart. Not interrogating the hungry pain body, but just confirming. Yes. This place feels exactly this way. This is where you are. I get it.”
“Pregnancy sucks the nightlife out of you.”
“Orpheus never got the memo that loss is a ticket to resilience, not some sewer of revenge in which to wallow, marinating selfish, hellbent purpose for centuries on end.”
“He’d scorned the Earth, but she kept spinning anyway.”
“Each cell within its atom is a raw, formless idea that exists beyond mortality. It is the wild state constantly creating your world, the one word in a collective equation that is you becoming written from nothing into something — and so it knows, ultimately, annihilation is an essential instrument of becoming new to all that can be known.”
“You know all of this already. I’m teaching the Hoopoe that she has wings.”
“Time’s irrelevant from his perspective; he could pursue this for centuries and never age or harvest a single, necessary epiphany.”
“The more I let go, the more electric I become, resonating across tides and currents, touching the sweetest gems encircling me, calling me home. The water in which I’m suspended charges me like a battery that runs on lightning.”
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