Amanda de Boer

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou