Amber Reu

“Books were an antidepressant, a powerful SSRI.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Novels had accompanied her throughout her childhood, that period of protracted isolation, and they would probably do so during whatever lay ahead in adulthood.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion