The Cosmos of Amie Martine Quotes

“She followed him across the desolate, unfurnished room to the very edge of everything it someday promised to become, then went feet forward onto the extended sky...”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“Most of what humans understand about light is nothing, which is not their fault. Humans aren’t supposed to have it all figured out.”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“You’re full of keys and clues, crafty in your use of ordinary tools. You were creating from the moment we got here. Poets are formidable spellcasters—and equally skilled at shattering illusions. You’re made to be free from petty manipulations.”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“Barefoot on the shore, I steady myself, alone.
Tides sway back and forth as earthly hours trace forward motion on the clock. Reassuring ease refreshes with the smooth, slow bloom of morning twilight, governed with consistent timing by predictable planetary spin.”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“The three of them and the five of us, we are as weather is upon the planet. I breathe them and they breathe me. Clouds and breezes, lightning strikes and claps of thunder, we are the land, the air, the motion of existence, confirmed by sound and light and change.”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“Sunny thought he could rally satisfaction by wringing the bare facts of his befuddlement out through the tight spinners of the Poet’s mind.”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“She denatured the mystery, squeezed a palpable space between the lines, trapped his mind in flattery. Beautiful it was to watch, you all fell through the crack, went down right with him.”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“This Earth is just a space many souls have chosen to have in common. When just one corner becomes lit, darkness has no thrill of air to bend toward its advantage. Angle by angle, we smooth away the chance that darkness may establish.”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine