AmberLee Fuller > Quotes

“I hadn’t meant to think of him, but scent is a traitor. Drags ghosts right through open doors.”
― AmberLee Fuller, Anatomy of Release

“Then he kissed her like twenty years of unsaid things—almosts and nevers, nights spent wondering, mornings spent regretting—had never happened at all.”
― AmberLee Fuller, Anatomy of Release

“Hope was dangerous. It always was. And yet, there it was anyway—cracking my chest open, like light through a door I’d kept barricaded shut my entire life.”
― AmberLee Fuller, Anatomy of Release

“You don’t get to judge the shape of my healing just because it doesn’t match your fantasy of me.”
― AmberLee Fuller, Anatomy of Release

“Grief moved fast.
And slow.
And not at all.
It was dragging her by the hair through details she couldn’t hold on to. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she already knew—she wasn’t going back to who she was before; that version of her died with him.”
― AmberLee Fuller, Anatomy of Release

“Consent wasn’t foreplay. It wasn’t the warm-up. It was the whole damn symphony—the main event, the headline. The only thing that made the rest of it matter.”
― AmberLee Fuller, Anatomy of Release

“And all that was left was a woman in an airport with a carry-on full of grief and no one to hand it to.
Still pretending love wasn’t conditional. Still pretending I could be wanted enough to be kept.”
― AmberLee Fuller, Anatomy of Release

“Because I knew if I did, if I sat still—the grief would settle on me like Florida humidity—sticky, unrelenting, impossible to shake, stealing the air from my lungs.”
― AmberLee Fuller, Anatomy of Release