Silence Quote by Amber Dawn

“Is desecration teaching? Is violence knowledge? Is haunting a kind of life? I had no model for rebirth. No second coming blueprint.”

— Amber Dawn

“and I loved long drives how you can close your eyes, then open, and everything around you has changed.”

— Amber Dawn

“[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

“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

“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

“When he did appear his eyes were as brown as I remembered, pupils flecked with gold like beach pebbles.”

— Amber Dawn

“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

“Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons.”

— Amber Dawn

“When this paragraph ends, this story is all yours.”

— Amber Dawn

“...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

“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

“What would Samuel Becket say if he knew that Broadway musicals are all that survived of the theatre world?”

— Amber Dawn