Amber

“I think, so long as someone knows your story, you are alive in the world.”
― Stephanie Butland, The Book of Kindness

“And there are books. Readers know that, when their heart hurts with loss or absence, then a book that they have read before can lessen the ache. Readers, faced with a new experience, find a book to help them navigate: a travel guide to a new city, say, but also a novel set there.”
― Stephanie Butland, Found in a Bookshop

“When people give me compliments, I’m like a vending machine trying to accept a wrinkly dollar. I’ve never managed to improve.”
― Ali Rosen, Alternate Endings

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet