Amber R

“You’re the one who has to live your life. Don’t apologize to other people for the decisions you make for yourself.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“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

“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

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft