Amber Dawn Quotes & Sayings

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

I had spent so much time secretly scared of rape that in that moment I was hardly even afraid anymore. Or rather I had moved on to my next fear - what happens when it's over? Would I be left there, alone? Injured? Or worse? — Amber Dawn

And I loved long drives
how you can close your eyes,
then open, and everything around you has changed. — Amber Dawn

Lying is the work of people who are told their truths have no value.
The labour of survival is laden with myth and misunderstanding.
Silence is the work of people who can't comprehend that change is possible. — 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

What would Samuel Becket say if he knew that Broadway musicals are all that survived of the theatre world? — Amber Dawn

I swung my hips around like I unscrewed at the waist. — 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 an underdog book because there are still comparatively so few books about sex work, especially from authors who once worked street, like I have. Disclosing to working street-level sex work still feels risky to me. Apart from Runaway by Evelyn Lau (published in 1989) I have yet to read a first person memoir about street work. More of these stories must be out there - perhaps I just haven't found them yet. — Amber Dawn

So tremendous, sadness
doesn't know where the world ends
and my body begins. — Amber Dawn

Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons. — Amber Dawn