22 Quotes by Amy Gerstler

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.

Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.

People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines – generous, gum-yielding trees – to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.

Love doesn’t reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.

I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.

My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.