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May We Shed These Human Bodies QUOTES

May We Shed These Human Bodies QUOTES

1 " She thinks now that she has always been a person that needs layers. Not a scarf or a sweater, but walls between her and other people. A series of homes within homes. A series of places to hide. "

― Amber Sparks , May We Shed These Human Bodies

2 " She doesn’t have the capacity to undo metaphors. "

― Amber Sparks , May We Shed These Human Bodies

3 " Fingerprint, he writes. A map to mark the spaces you’ve inhabited. A map you make yourself, quadrant by quadrant, inch by inch, until the landscape of your life looks like a vast and unexplored terrain. Here there be monsters, it will say. "

― Amber Sparks , May We Shed These Human Bodies

4 " Lay your life out flat before us. We never could spot you before, halfway round the earth and tied to land so small. But now we possess the science and vision. Now you can speak to us down the telephone cords of time and terrain. Use scissors to slice off the right scenes; no need to reveal everything. Edit brutally. Soak the naked film in dye and roll it over the drum to dry it out. It is important that you get the tint exactly right. It is important that you show us exactly what you mean. You have grown up and grown old in the shadow of the great technologies; here is another to tell your story. We will stop up all that leaking light, filter it through until it burns clean and true. We will bottle you and keep you. We will sell your warnings like wishes. "

― Amber Sparks , May We Shed These Human Bodies

5 " where the warm night slips over your skin like smooth hands, "

― Amber Sparks , May We Shed These Human Bodies