Amber C

“You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there.

This is why you have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you because the present may be all you've got. And if there's more ahead then the present is where you can really shape your future.”
― Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping

“If you stay on the sidelines of the here and now then your future will only ever be a pale version of a dream you never had the courage to experience.”
― Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping

“You think you know everything that's happening around you. But you can't always see clearly when your standing right there in the picture.”
― Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping

“Believing is never a waste of time." Simon looked at me intently his eyes flickering. "Even if you're wrong you could have been right. Take me with my painting I don't know if I'm any good. So maybe I shouldn't try because maybe I'd be setting myself up for disappointment. But it's like you looking for old coins on the beach. Whether you find any or not is for bonus points it's the search that counts. It's the belief that they might be out there.”
― Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping