Dark Sparkler Quotes

“Your career has another five years, maybe, she says, if you’re lucky. According to who? I ask. According to every actress who’s come before you. So I turn my focus to every actress coming after me. I”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“Dear men in Congress,
You think banning birth control is conservative progress?
You think sanctioning my ovaries won’t bring me to violence?
How about I tell you what to do with your caucus?
It is now illegal to think about me topless.
To keep your lotion where your socks is.
To refer to powerful women as monsters like those jocks at Fox did.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“No one should have to look back to see
the bright future ahead of them.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“Not a speaking role.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“I’m told they buried they body with the garter belt still on.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“She looked up and out and jumped
into the stars, into the famous
valley of light.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“I draw a door on the floor and tell him, This is where dad
used to take me for dinner.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“The way she could turn in to her camera close-up
like life depended on her.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“They say it looked like a big flower had sprung
in the place where I shot myself dead,
just like those ribbon pigtails clung
onto either side of your head.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“This is the film
I could finally get cast in.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“I’ll be the girl they say pink things to,
so weightless she arrives by ghost.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“It was like that.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“It stayed like that: a rosy ring of jailed blood that came to the barred window
and never left.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“It’s that drunk bitch in the Thirty-second Street bar.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“But when I turn up the volume on the TV
no laugh track is playing.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“We interrupt this program for breaking news:

Has anyone seen this nobody?”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“In the mirror I see only the time-lapsed weather patterns of 1964.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“Her quiet hands, filling up boxes,
inviting all the silence to finally leave the room.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“Bruce watched her nose
sniff at the side of the friend’s head,
her tongue like a worm, searching
for a way in.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“Never lived.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“But I’ve crunched the numbers and think I’ve found my six-pack:
I’ll get a new nose. The cartilage lost from one of those can be measured in grams. If I shave my head,
that’s shaving off one fourth of a pound.
66.6 percent of the three-pound human brain
would be another two pounds down.
The vestigiality of all phalanges is coming to an end.
So why keep them?
And twenty-five feet of intestinal tract?
Let’s half that. Anything gastric’s elastic.
Ribs can be replaced with plastic.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“Forty-two:
On your first mission into space,
you recall your mother’s umbilical cord
being cut from you.
Your high heels floating down the river,
all the way into the Atlantic Ocean.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“Mrs. Pellington found muddy footprints leading up her front porch
and only muddy handprints leading away from it.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“I’ll bet their wives let their cats go out
hunting at night like premonitions of future sons.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy

“When you find a skull in the woods, do you leave it alone because it disturbs you or do you leave it alone because of what's living inside?”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy