Amber R

“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

“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

“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