Amelia Gray Quotes

Just because you made it warm doesnt make it yours.

Amelia Gray

• Made
• Warm
• Yours

Why does the rain make us feel so romantic and strange? Maybe its the fact that we are unnatural spectators of it, from inside our homes, and it is a reminder that we have the power to live our whole lives like this, if we choose. Its not the smell of fertile ground kicked up by raindrops, or the slick leaves, or the way we must amplify our voices to be heard over this larger presence. Its the power of the rooftop that makes us want to fuck under it.

Amelia Gray

• Feel
• Romantic
• Rain

Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.

Amelia Gray

• Writing
• Want
• Escape

She was the kind of girl who climbed the tallest tree and cried to be let down, but she was also the kind of girl who would scramble and jump down on her own as soon as someone went in for the ladder.

Amelia Gray

• Girl
• Cried
• Scramble

It was hard to admit that those days were over, but it was hard to admit that any days were over, that the days themselves didn't stretch like pulled taffy and sag to the floor.

Amelia Gray

• Days
• Over
• Admit

It was clear that in a past life the detective had been a phone booth beside an empty highway.

Amelia Gray

• Past
• Detective
• Booth

Today, its possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.

Amelia Gray

• Read
• Erotica
• Castigation

You lose everything you love in the order in which you love it.

Amelia Gray

• Love
• For Her
• Lose

Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.

Amelia Gray

• Computer
• Dating
• Sadnesses