Amber McBride > Quotes

“My point is that a leaf knows it’s important at all moments of its life, even when its broken. People always forget that a rough day, a bad year, doesn’t equal a bad life.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Names outgrow you, like a garden left untended; they don’t disappear with the science that keeps our bodies alive.”
― Amber McBride, Me: Moth

“You be the flood---
I'll be your boat.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“The best way to get to know someone,
to get beneath their skin & into the bone,
is to tell a story & offer music.

A story explains who you want to be;
the other shows who you are."
-Moth”
― Amber McBride, Me: Moth

“The only way out is through.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“You see, you see
when a story stops being told,
when the news no longer televises,
when the false memory thinks its true
is it still, in fact truth?”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“I have found that the whites of your bones... Are so lovely they should be carved into piano keys.”
― Amber McBride, Me: Moth

“Let's write our story, so no one can take it away.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“The best way to get to know someone, to get beneath their skin & into the bone, is to tell a story & offer music. A story explains who you want to be; the other shows who you are.”
― Amber McBride, Me: Moth

“Stories keep the world intact. Storytelling predates the written word by more than 3,000 years. Fairy Tales, specifically, have always protested against societal constraints & commented on the human condition. Fairy Tales offer whimsy & truth - the whimsy makes us brave & the truth points us in the right direction.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Never mourn loud enough to make flowers wilt.”
― Amber McBride, Me: Moth

“There are no omens, just balance.
Balance is what brings about magic."
-Grandfather”
― Amber McBride, Me: Moth

“Most of the founding fathers were like that; they spoke of freedom but did not offer it to everyone. They had bodies in their closets.”
― Amber McBride, Me: Moth

“Do you understand now (reader)? There is someone out there rooting for you. You are not alone, in any Forest. You there, hello, bonjour, hola— we are rooting, cheering for you to live & thrive.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Sorrow is no one's fault.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“I have found that the whites of your bones are so lovely, they should be carved into piano keys.”
― Amber McBride, Me: Moth

“You don't show empathy towards those who willfully hurt you.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Now, I am the reason no one gets to smile again.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Remember you don't have to be brave, you lived, you are (both) already bravery itself.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Snow White is being bruised by apples—  when she used to be the apple of everyone’s eye.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Sometimes I wish I hadn’t said that, now I wish I’d said, Tell me more, help me understand.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“I am always wishing for
October 32,
& everyone else
is stepping
forward.
Moving forward.
Racing forward
into November.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“The boys’ hands hold me under, my ears pop & my eyes add water to the flood as the boys waterfall hateful words at me.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“We need to remember that the mind is still a mind,  floating like a newborn cloud or bird wings drowning in hardened chocolate. My point is that a leaf knows it’s important,  at all moments of its life  even when it is broken.  People always forget  that a rough day, a bad year—  doesn’t equal a bad life.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“The ones you love, don’t leave—  they just come back different.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Did you need someone to save you, Sani? I needed someone to see me, Moth.”
― Amber McBride, Me: Moth

“Every iota of greenery & pavement we cross used to be Native land.”
― Amber McBride, Me: Moth

“It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“sometimes your own mind will unroot you.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“God blistered & bothered in the stars saying, How about a mind plague for humankind? We could call it Clinical Depression. Then they handed it out, like spoiled candy.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling