Amanda Linsmeier > Quotes

“you are a lover of the words
a soul mate to the story
everything becomes a part of you
from my fingertips to your eyes
from my heart to yours”
― Amanda Linsmeier, Like Waves

“We are two blackbirds, connected by the wings. She's the only one I have left, the only one who can light up the dark and chase my nightmares away.”
― Amanda Linsmeier, Starlings

“I feel a warmth within, as if sunshine has flooded my soul.”
― Amanda Linsmeier, Ditch Flowers

“There was beauty in chaos, she'd just never known it before.”
― Amanda Linsmeier, Beach Glass & Other Broken Things

“I push away the questions. I don't look for frightening things anymore. Except somewhere, in the deepest recesses of my bones, I feel like they still look for me.”
― Amanda Linsmeier, Starlings

“Every change, those subtle-slow, and those drastically sudden, has brought me into myself.”
― Amanda Linsmeier, Beach Glass & Other Broken Things

“I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too”
― Amanda Linsmeier, Like Waves

“She must miss him, doesn't she?
Doesn't the whole world?
Sometimes when it rains, I imagine it as the earth crying for him.”
― Amanda Linsmeier

“Half-broke hearts just didn't have much pep.”
― Amanda Linsmeier, Déjà You: Stories of Second Chances

“This moment holds everything I could ever want to say to him and everything I could ever want to hear back.”
― Amanda Linsmeier, Ditch Flowers

“...why would you hurt me so much?"
"Because you still have fight in you. I want you broken.”
― Amanda Linsmeier, Starlings