Quotes From "The Look Of Amie Martine" By Laurie Perez

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There’s no matter here you can’t re-matter into love. Laurie Perez
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Corporeal reality is much more rich and precious than we realize. It feels good to have a body, to surge on currents of emotion, to have nerve endings, mitochondria in our cells, tangible focused energy, the embodiment of light – given a voice. Laurie Perez
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Light, Amie, can be blinding when it first comes on. Lasers can be deadly, even when streaming from benevolence. We need perspective. We need it to seem wiser than us, tested and tempered by time. Laurie Perez
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Crossing the Atlantic on that new day was supposed to be a sharp delineation, a from-now-on demarcation in my life story. What I took off from was not supposed to arrive with me upon landing or ever pulse in me again. From the ocean and sky and the hours in flight, I intended to extract a selective, permanent amnesia. Laurie Perez
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His eyes spark with revolutions, enlightened trickery and unconditional affection. Laurie Perez
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Now, what’s stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history. Laurie Perez
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I chose to live in the Ether, to be starlight and legend.... Laurie Perez