“He has always been a silent gargoyle sitting at the head of our family table. I've pieced together his story from what little my relatives have shared in hushed disclosures and from reading other soldiers' biographies, visiting museums, and watching… — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
“Is desecration teaching? Is violence knowledge? Is haunting a kind of life? I had no model for rebirth. No second coming blueprint.” — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
“and I loved long drives how you can close your eyes, then open, and everything around you has changed.” — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
“[This] story ...is the one I recount to remind myself that I survived and that the worth of my life can be paid back… — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
“I...believe that passively reading about or otherwise witnessing injustice injures us--it widens the disconnect. The part of us that is hurting does not heal… — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
“When I was thinking about How Poetry Saved My Life entering the “big literary world” I more so viewed it as sub genre or… — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
“When he did appear his eyes were as brown as I remembered, pupils flecked with gold like beach pebbles.” — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
“I’m jealous – not of their money to spend, but jealous that, for them, going home is a simple matter of turning down the… — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
“Lying is the work of people who are told their truths have no value. The labour of survival is laden with myth and misunderstanding.… — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
“...I learned the power of identity--the idea that even an uneducated woman, like myself, who hadn't read Mary Wollstonecraft or bell hooks, could be… — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
“He has always been a silent gargoyle sitting at the head of our family table. I've pieced together his story from what little my… — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
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