10 Quotes by Amber Kizer

What is it? Tens, I can see the stick up your arse from here. I'm dying remember? Dying people don't have time for silly moods

Be the cockroach

You’re not from around here, are you? Can’t be. Why would we name it I-YOU-POO-Y? Really? Say the letters. I-U-P-U-I.

Everything changes. Everything is temporary, except for the sky. When you find yourself caught up in the horrors or heroes of a lifetime, look up. Don’t look down. That which is beneath our feet is liquid, but the sky, the sky is solid, constant, ever ready and ever hopeful that the sun will rise in the morning and the moon will rise at night. They don’t really set, you know. They’re always rising, just rising for someone else.

Her fingers were gnarled and crooked like the roots of the oldest swamp trees. Not prissy roots of trees that grew in manicured parks and didn’t understand the mess of life. These were roots forced to grow around, and down, and through, to survive.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change it’s form.

Love is the greatest act of faith.

What good is a quilt if it’s unused? The same as a life unused. They’re meant to be wrung out and frayed around the edges. That’s the way of things. Always has been. Always will be.

Be the cockroach.