Amber R

“Because sometimes people don’t know how to ask for what they really need. You needed a hug.” “No. I didn’t,” he rasped. He was quiet for a long moment, and I listened to his heartbeat. “I needed you.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“There’s a difference between taking care of someone because you love them and taking care of someone because you want them to love you,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Our world is designed for extroverts. We place a high value on those with a seemingly effortless knack for socializing. Magnetic personalities are deified, while the more muted among us are bulldozed in conversation. We turn every email into a video call and race to fill silence with sound, indicting quiet as “awkward” without considering its necessity. Anyone who prefers solitude and a good book over the relentless calendar of a socialite is looked upon with pity, as if we don’t crave nonstop interaction because we’re just weird.”
― Brandon J. Wolf, A Place for Us: A Memoir

“Single moms were the world’s unsung fucking heroes.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over