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Dark Sparkler QUOTES

Dark Sparkler QUOTES

1 " Dear men in Congress,
You think banning birth control is conservative progress?
You think sanctioning my ovaries won’t bring me to violence?
How about I tell you what to do with your caucus?
It is now illegal to think about me topless.
To keep your lotion where your socks is.
To refer to powerful women as monsters like those jocks at Fox did. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

2 " Forty-two:
On your first mission into space,
you recall your mother’s umbilical cord
being cut from you.
Your high heels floating down the river,
all the way into the Atlantic Ocean. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

3 " Your career has another five years, maybe, she says, if you’re lucky. According to who? I ask. According to every actress who’s come before you. So I turn my focus to every actress coming after me. I "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

4 " No one should have to look back to see
the bright future ahead of them. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

5 " When you find a skull in the woods, do you leave it alone because it disturbs you or do you leave it alone because of what's living inside? "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

6 " I’ll bet their wives let their cats go out
hunting at night like premonitions of future sons. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

7 " Mrs. Pellington found muddy footprints leading up her front porch
and only muddy handprints leading away from it. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

8 " But I’ve crunched the numbers and think I’ve found my six-pack:
I’ll get a new nose. The cartilage lost from one of those can be measured in grams. If I shave my head,
that’s shaving off one fourth of a pound.
66.6 percent of the three-pound human brain
would be another two pounds down.
The vestigiality of all phalanges is coming to an end.
So why keep them?
And twenty-five feet of intestinal tract?
Let’s half that. Anything gastric’s elastic.
Ribs can be replaced with plastic. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

9 " Never lived. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

10 " Bruce watched her nose
sniff at the side of the friend’s head,
her tongue like a worm, searching
for a way in. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

11 " Her quiet hands, filling up boxes,
inviting all the silence to finally leave the room. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

12 " In the mirror I see only the time-lapsed weather patterns of 1964. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

13 " We interrupt this program for breaking news:

Has anyone seen this nobody? "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

14 " But when I turn up the volume on the TV
no laugh track is playing. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

15 " It’s that drunk bitch in the Thirty-second Street bar. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

16 " It stayed like that: a rosy ring of jailed blood that came to the barred window
and never left. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

17 " It was like that. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

18 " I’ll be the girl they say pink things to,
so weightless she arrives by ghost. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

19 " This is the film
I could finally get cast in. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler

20 " They say it looked like a big flower had sprung
in the place where I shot myself dead,
just like those ribbon pigtails clung
onto either side of your head. "

― Amber Tamblyn , Dark Sparkler