Amy Gentry > Quotes

“This is why people need God—because people are awful, even the good ones.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Maybe once you've been left by the most important person in your life, you can never be unleft again. Maybe you're destined to be abandoned even by your own guts, maybe your foot walks off with your thighbone, why not, stranger things have happened.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Maybe once you’ve been left by the most important person in your life, you can never be unleft again.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Somewhere deep down, I thought Julie was perfect. Now I wonder: Was I so afraid of finding out she wasn’t perfect that I almost killed her?   When”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Every woman I know has gone through something. Raped, assaulted, harassed, forced out of jobs. Trapped in abusive relationships. We talk about it with each other when the guys aren’t around. And since most of us aren’t out there making revenge pacts, I don’t know what the incentive would be to lie.”
― Amy Gentry, Last Woman Standing

“I don't believe in the glory and the dream. I believe in statistics.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“God too, had sacrificed his Son, Jesus. Always sons, never daughters. Were daughters too important? Or was it the opposite?”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“If there is something missing—if I am afraid to love her quite as much as before—it is only because the potential for love feels so big and so intense that I fear I will disappear in the expression of it, that it will blow my skin away like clouds and I will be nothing.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“But there are laws of inevitability at work in our lives.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“She could feel him taking in, for the first time, her lack of a coat, her lack of a purse. Now was the moment when he would also surmise, correctly, that he was buying her dinner.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Survival and persistence, sung defiantly in the high notes of the diva, are no small feats in a world that wishes fervently for one's nonexistence and/or silent complicity in one's own exploitation. The narcissistic self-regard implied in the negative definition of the diva is a radical insistence on self-love when no one else loves you, when you are not, according to social norms, worthy of being loved at all, but only of being desired in a way that uses you up or consumes you. To say that diva citizenship cannot change the world is to accept a meaning of "the world" that aligns it only with the privileged. An investigation of the real function of diva citizenship has to start by asking who these acts are for, and whether the very fact of having something for herself can change a person, who might then go on to change the world just by surviving in it for one more day.”
― Amy Gentry, Boys for Pele

“(Incidentally, I’d be delighted if I could claim to have found lesbian overtones in Boys for Pele, but since I cannot, I am tempted to conclude that anything not expressly aimed at pleasing men is susceptible to this interpretation.)”
― Amy Gentry, Boys for Pele

“.. I want you to be scared of being alone with strange women like I'm scared of being alone with strange men.”
― Amy Gentry, Last Woman Standing

“I like to eat one half at a time, in case I want to take the rest home,” he said. “And I find triangles aesthetically pleasing.” “That’s”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“most abducted children are taken by people they know;”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“My whole life, ever since I could remember, I’d always hated the thought that no one could ever know what anyone else was feeling or thinking. The fact that no one could ever be inside my head with me seemed like the loneliest thing in the world. I wanted so bad for there to be something that could make those boundaries just disappear. Something so big it was like air, a magic flowing across the planet, connecting everyone and everything.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“This is why people need God—because people are awful, even the good ones”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“only superficially rebellious, on the level of hair dye.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Jane”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“How exciting to believe in your own ability to defy the world’s expectations of you even as you fulfill them, one cliché after another. I have spent my own life looking to my left and right and finding only the well-worn tracks of my own thoughts and behavior hemming me in.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“What I should say is that it feels like all the parts of my body are going their separate ways. It feels like I am being abandoned by everything that has ever felt like a part of me. Maybe once you’ve been left by the most important person in your life, you can never be unleft again. Maybe you’re destined to be abandoned even by your own guts, maybe your foot walks off with your thighbone, why not, stranger things have happened.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“When, on "Blood Roses," she temporarily slides into animalistic clucking or braying, it feels like an anti-Kantian rebuke: we're all animals here. We sing, yes. But we also bite, we clench, we grind. We feed, we fuck, we shit.”
― Amy Gentry, Boys for Pele

“The worst doesn’t unhappen, but just like that, I am home.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Tom starts the engine, puts on his blinker, and forces the car out into the Houston traffic. He’s a wonderfully aggressive driver. When”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“I keep trying to find the before. But once something like that happens to you, there is no before anymore. It takes the before away.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“I remember when the grief was so potent I would lie on the sofa with the television on drinking vodka gimlets, one after the other, just waiting to pass out, staying as still as possible, teaching myself the art of numbness.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“The feeling of leaving: a perfect feeling, better than any safety in the world.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“there are laws of inevitability at work in our lives.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone