Amber

“It is a strange pressure to be across from a man who wants something that you don't want to give. It's like standing in a forceful current, which at first you think is not too strong, but the longer you stand, the more tired you become, the harder it is to stay upright.”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“Or maybe it means we’ve forgotten ourselves. And we keep forgetting ourselves. And that’s the big grown-up secret to survival.”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“That was the morning I committed the first sin of love, which was to confuse beauty and a good sound track with knowledge.”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“Loneliness is a very special place. It isn’t always easy to see the truth of Wilson’s statement, but over the course of my travels I’ve come to believe that he was right, that loneliness is by no means a wholly worthless experience, but rather one that cuts right to the heart of what we value and what we need. Many marvellous things have emerged from the lonely city: things forged in loneliness, but also things that function to redeem it.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone