Quotes from Kissing Coffins

Ellen Schreiber ·  224 pages

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“I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly to impress others. Did they really see themselves in the mirror? Was it what they wanted to see? Did it make them feel good or bad? And mostly I wondered if they based their self-image on their reflected one.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Kissing Coffins


“It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How the artist captured the light, the details of my mother's dimples, the joy in my father's eyes, all through gentle strokes from his palette. The artist made me look alive when I felt lonely and grim inside. That's the way this man saw me. I decided then that that's what I wanted to do”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Kissing Coffins


“Here's to new blood."
-Jagger Maxwell”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Kissing Coffins


“Some people spend all their lives searching for their soul mates.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Kissing Coffins


“Your right. We do spend a lot of time worrying about our looks, instead of focusing on what's inside. - Raven
The artist has the power to capture that. To express what he thinks about the subject. I thought that was much more romantic then seeing myself in a cold, stark glass reflection. - Alexander”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Kissing Coffins



“It's very lonely, feeling like an outcast. Like you are invited to a costume party, but you are the only one in a mask.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Kissing Coffins


“Some people search their whole lives searching for their soul mates.I had only an hour and a half to find mine.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Kissing Coffins


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