Amber

“Even now, with the natural world in so
much trouble—even now, with the patterns of my daily life changing in ways I don’t always welcome or understand—radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world. I mean to keep looking every single day until I find them.the”
― Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

“I like people who've seen some darkness. The haunted ones.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“I was a really lonely kid. The advantage to being unpopular is you get a lot more reading done.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“And it was easier and safer to stay in a bad situation than to take responsibility for getting out. Maybe, maybe. I don’t know. I tell myself that I want to live a happy life, and that the circumstances for happiness just haven’t arisen. But what if that’s not true? What if I’m the one who can’t let myself be happy? Because I’m scared, or I prefer to wallow in self-pity, or I don’t believe I deserve good things, or some other reason. Whenever something good happens to me I always find myself thinking: I wonder how long it will be until this turns out badly. And I almost want the worst to happen sooner, sooner rather than later, and if possible straight away, so at least I don’t have to feel anxious about it anymore.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You