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41 " The donkey skin - burn it. But not until you find true love. You'll lose your chance at love forever if you shed you skin too soon. "
― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
42 " where the warm night slips over your skin like smooth hands, "
― Amber Sparks , May We Shed These Human Bodies
43 " Other people just possess you, she'd told her friend, the butcher. Is that so bad ? he'd asked. To be possessed ?It's the worst fate of all, she'd say. The donkey skin, she thought, was everything else in the world; it was solitude : anonymous, bloody, and happy ever after. "
44 " This one's for the ladies. "
45 " Hollis Barcus was handsome, young, and literally climbing a building to rescue my mother. She thought he was an idiot, also, because he didn’t use the ladder propped up against the siding. "
46 " She'll push and push through until those long-ago rooms are hers again ; until she finds a new set of stages for a new set of lives. "
47 " Now I'm the deserted bride howling against it. "
48 " That human love is mostly failure. That failure may be very sad, but it is yours, and you hold on to it if you can. "
49 " I wrote it for you, and for all the daughters, and for all the mothers of daughters, and for all the mothers of mothers of daughters, thank you for carrying the world. "
50 " Go forward. There's no flying back to the far-gone past. "
― Amber Sparks , The Unfinished World and Other Stories
51 " She had become an ascetic of the suburban sort; she still poured a little whiskey into her tea and wore pastel capri pants and chain-smoked, but she also thought a lot—an overwhelming lot, she told me—about hell. "
52 " Mrs. Peters in the seventh grade accused me of being a goth and my dear parents (Dear Mother and Dearest Stepfather, I’ll probably have forgiven you by the time I’m dead, perhaps) sent me to the Catholic girls’ school in Kent to retrain me, and really, is there anything more inclined to train someone to think exclusively of death—manner and method of, and What Lies Beyond—than a Catholic school education? "