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1 " The absence of things is so loud it pierces my brain with loss. What used to be, is simply no more.But the memories linger like smoke in the air. "
― Gemma Amor , White Pines
2 " I had always felt things deeply, that was my nature. It was why I was a writer. Sometimes, the feelings were so huge, they needed a place to go. "
3 " I thought of my life, then, as a series of chapters in a book. I had finished the previous chapter, and it seemed to me, on reflection, as I stood here with the rest of my life in my hands, as if not much of any note had really happened in that chapter at all, despite the length of it. "
4 " When had it become such a titanic, colossal struggle to simply exist as a normal, functioning human being? "
5 " Sometimes, all you could do was give in. Sometimes, you just had to let the night win. Lose the battle, win the war, "
― Gemma Amor , Dear Laura
6 " It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money, "
― Gemma Amor , Six Rooms
7 " People need something tangible to attach their grief to. There is no comfort to be taken from wide open spaces full of nothing. "
8 " once a secret has grown old, and burrowed itself like a tick under the skin, it is harder to dig out "
9 " There was so much pain. Pain is just an obstacle, she told herself "
10 " Pain is just an obstacle, she told herself eventually, through gritted teeth. And obstacles are simply there to be overcome. "
11 " hide. "
― Gemma Amor , We Are Wolves
12 " seagulls at her back. Listen for them, and when you hear their cries, walk away as quickly as you can. Find a place, a crowded place, full of people and warmth and laughter. She preys on the weak and the lonely, the desolate and deprived. She feeds on your secrets, your dirty, precious little secrets. "
― Gemma Amor , Cruel Works of Nature: 11 Illustrated Horror Novellas
13 " LITERA SCRIPTA MANET / VERBA LOCUTA VOLANT This was a question the Guide was actually happy to answer. He translated the phrase for them with relish. ‘Written words remain, spoken words fly away,’ he said. "
14 " It means that books are powerful things. They remain long after a person has died. "
15 " Retrospect and hindsight are harmful things, in Justine’s mind. They are clubs with which to beat oneself when the world turns to black. "
― Gemma Amor , Till the Score is Paid
16 " Because once a secret has grown old, and burrowed itself like a tick under the skin, it is harder to dig out than she could fathom. "
17 " My recent loss was too fresh, too sharp. I couldn’t cut myself on the edges of it. Not again. Not right now. "
18 " The Island had taken a soft, privileged woman and chewed her up, remoulded her into something else, something raw, and desperate. "
19 " So this is what it’s like when someone you love dies, I thought. Like constantly trying to swallow a sharp stone. "
20 " As a woman I find a large portion of my time is spent pushing back, and yes, it can become exhausting, and I find my bones ache with it, sometimes. "
