Ami Church

“Inventions were not like your children. Your children were all your flaws shown to you in a way that made you love them: your worst made good.”
― Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars

“Life isn't working out? Okay. Pack the car with as many books as you can carry, bring a guitar and an old keyboard, fill your empty pages with lyrics and stories. Read the books, the ones you always wondered about. Swallow your pride and because you can't do anything else, hold a job or maintain a relationship with another human being, move to a tiny trailer at the edge of the world and just get on with it. Write.”
― Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary, for the ungrateful.”
― Matthew Quick, The Reason You're Alive