Amber R

“Demanding to have your own needs met isn’t problematic—it’s heroic, and kids are watching. They’re always watching. If you set an example that tells her the only way she’s worthy of love is by giving everyone everything, she’ll internalize that message.”
― 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

“Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. I'm bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table.”
― Tupac Shakur

“But it wasn’t Jackson I found myself angry at now. It was myself. Because I’d let him treat me that way. I hadn’t walked away until I got slapped with something so ugly I had no choice. Now I had to figure out who I really was, and who I wanted to be. Because I’d been slowly erasing parts of myself to make someone else happy.”
― Catherine Cowles, Death to Valentine's Day