Amber

“Mom looks up, asking the ceiling why I couldn't just be going around sneaking cigarettes and sneaking boys up to my room like a normal girl.

I say nothing.

Johnny asks my parents what decade they're from.

Dad states the year he was born and asks what that has to do with anything.

Mom says Johnny needs to shut up right now.”
― M.E. Girard, Girl Mans Up

“She had never really seen a pair of eyes like this. It was like standing in the doorway to a dark room, like balancing on a threshold, holding a lantern up and watching how it kissed some things gold and left other things in shadow. It was the kind of dark that hid and held a lot of things. A hot fluid dark, a summer tide pool dark, a wild breathless dark.”
― Nina Varela, Crier's War

“I shall think of you at sunset, and at sunrise, again; and at noon, and forenoon, and afternoon, and always, and evermore, till this little heart stops beating and is still.”
― Emily Dickinson, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“I broke every promise I ever made to you. I know that. And whether you believe it or not, I am sorry.”
― Heather Walter, Del Rey The Crimson Crown.