Nicole C. Kear > Quotes

“Sticking your nose in a book might seem like the very opposite of grabbing life by the balls, but reading had always been one of my great loves, and it was one of the things I was most terrified to lose. Sure, there were always audiobooks, but the holy communion of bringing your eyes to paper and sweeping them across the page, left to right, left to right, left to right, the rhythm of that dance, the quiet of it, the sound of the page turning, the look of crinkled covers stained with the coffee you were drinking when you read that chapter that changed your life--you didn't get any of that when listening to an audiobook, and I wanted as much of that as I could get, while I still could.”
― Nicole C. Kear, Now I See You: A Memoir

“Despite the fact that I hadn't been a child in a decade, my mother still acted like the deed to my life was in her name and I was just some renter she had to hand the keys over to who'd probably fuck the place up beyond repair.”
― Nicole C. Kear, Now I See You: A Memoir

“Be careful!” My mother and grandmother repeated it with a cultlike persistence, pairing it so frequently with “I love you” that to this day I find it hard to divide the two.”
― Nicole C. Kear, Now I See You: A Memoir