Amber Burton

“What are you doing?"

"Killing you." A ghost of a smile touched his ips, but not his pale eyes.

"Why?"

"Because it's what we do. And because you're beautiful.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse

“We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment, before she slips from our grasp and flees. As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Rejection teaches you about where you stand. There is nothing wrong with that. When I look back at the time, I don’t regret being rejected, but I regret wasting years.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“But you have to have a working heart for it to break.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart