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And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges QUOTES

1 " Maybe then he would have understood her better, understood how suffering steals the aptitude for happiness from you. Maybe he would have been okay with her melancholy then. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

2 " Lavoisier's wife surely could have used a barf emoji, had she ever looked up the origin of 'helpmeet' and shared it with Charlotte Corday.

Lavoisier's wife's text: Can you even f**king believe this s**t? (Barf emoji here)

Lavoisier's wife's text back from bff Corday: OMG OF COURSE GENESIS, WTF "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

3 " he shriveled, and he husked without her. It is this the robots cannot understand. 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. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

4 " APOPHENIA. The human tendency to seek patterns in random nature, where there are no patterns to be found. See also: ghosts, gambling, and the passions of religious mania and prophecy. See also: what happens when your lover’s brain breaks down while the world is burning.
I was born the day they found a face on Mars. It was a lie, of course; it was a geographical anomaly, a trick of the terrain. We want so badly to make sense of the cosmos, to see it in ourselves. We turn shadows into sockets, bright smears into mouths and eyes.
We turn the universe into our mirror. #narcissus, naturally. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

5 " Lavoisier's wife's, let us repeat, translated a s***load of science books into another language just so her husband, audience of one, could understand what they said. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

6 " She almost wishes for another love affair, sometimes, just to be able to end it. Just to feel that door close once more. Would that be true love ? The relief of loneliness, replayed forever and ever ? "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

7 " And what is history, anyway, but the chance to dig up our skeletons and give them new stories ? "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

8 " Is the Future a nice place for girls, the queen asked, and the fit woman snorted. Not exactly, she said. But - and she eyed the queen's cloak and shoes and hair - better than where you come from. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

9 " I would have kept myself to myself if you’d loved me. I wouldn’t have texted you, not after ten. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

10 " History likes to lie about women. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

11 " She loved to create small strange worlds on paper and had set up a gallery in several rooms of her home for her art: the royal version of the family refrigerator. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

12 " The girl herself, in the way of most humans: unready for unhappiness. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

13 " I thought to ask your ex-wife, but she wasn’t online, wasn’t anywhere at all where I could find her. I thought that was strange once, but no longer; no doubt you made a hungry hole in her life. No doubt you swallowed her up. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

14 " It’s always raining now, or always dry now. And all our days are like this now, here at the end of the world. Everything feels like a memory already. Everything feels like it’s happening for the last time. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

15 " Moon. Face not withstanding, the moon is a source of madness just the same. Or so say the police, hospital staff, and good old Pliny the Elder, who theorized that perhaps humans were so affected by the moon because they- like the tides- were made mostly of water, especially the brain. The full moon, in particular, is believed to hand us lunatics, werewolves, and criminals. The moon reaches down with silver fingers and toys with us; and we reach up and destroy the moon. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

16 " When she prints stuff, the neighbors bang on the walls and the dust comes up all around you, like a filthy snow globe. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

17 " You’ll do it? you asked, You’ll make the crown for me? and I understood then: this sex was never about love, never about your own body’s need. It was about mine, and how you knew it would undo me in the end. It always has, this great need to melt the world in the flames of passion, to burn everything down behind me, even in the savage dream of these sorry times we inhabit. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

18 " She’s read basically every book in the world and looks like a movie star, but she only dates women. I think that’s pretty brilliant, "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

19 " Then, only then would we do the thing they say we did long ago : rid them of their wars and bring them peace beyond dreaming, beyong the imagining of any living thing. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

20 " Sometimes she prayed, though she didn’t exactly believe in a benevolent god. Hers was an angry god, furious and disapproving, and she prayed mostly for revenges and disappointments. "

― Amber Sparks , And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges