Nicole > Nicole's Quotes

“When there is only you, you do not get to choose which jobs you want, you do not get to decide you are incapable of anything. There is no room for distaste or weakness. You must do it all. All of the ugliness, the sadness, the things most people can't stand to even think about, all must live inside of you. You must be capable of everything.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“But it was not, her job to carry the full box. Her job was to sort through the box. To decide what to keep, and to put down the rest. She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“It had brought destruction.
It would also bring renewal, rising from the ashes.
The story of fire.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Maybe our parents' lives are imprinted within us, maybe the only fate there is is the temptation of reliving their mistakes. Maybe, try as we might, we will never be able to outrun the blood that runs through our veins. Or. Or maybe we are free the moment we are born. Maybe everything we've even done is by our own hands.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“What you did mattered so much more than anything you said.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“People changed and they didn't. People evolved and they didn't.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“It was easy to stay the same when you were looking at the same walls.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Grief was something that moved in and stayed. Maybe it moved from one side of the room to the other, farther away from the window, but it was always there.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Any story could be a comedy or a tragedy, depending on where you ended it. That was the magic, how the same story could be told an infinite number of ways.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Love gives people the power to be treacherous. Being hurt by someone you share such a thing with is draining-a needle under the skin or a knife in the rib. Hate is a choice. Love is not. Theres nothing so out of our control as that.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Emotions and I don't have the best relationship. It's a distant, bitter affair-a divorce. Emotions are disgusted by me. They're a gust of wind on the other side of that ledge, and even if they toy with my hair or stroke my skin, I ignore them. Emotions are with the ghosts I buried, husks of what they were, hollow hauntings.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Death is sudden. It has no taste for irony or reason. It doesn't wait for another tick of the metronome. It doesn't wait for goodbyes. Death is a taker, plain, direct, no tricks up its sleeve. And it will give you nothing in return but a last endless kiss for those you leave behind.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“I think the worst feeling in the world is telling someone you're in pain and hearing them say there's no wound.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“No one is better at killing people than people.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“The day I met him, even buried, is a memory laced with the joy of its happening and the pain of its passing. Because even if I told you I have forgotten, you can't trust me. You don't ever forget the first time you fell.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“We're going to die, so what? Everyone dies and everything ends. Sometimes endings are abrupt. They hit you in the face and it's too soon and it's unfair, but that doesn't matter. The last page doesn't define the book.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Fear is a large shadow with a little spine.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Because you don't lose someone once...You lose them infinitely.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Time is kind with grief. It takes it from you, piece by piece, till the sorrow is a song you remember the beat of but no longer hear.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“the world is fundamentally unfair and chances are illusions of choices time takes for itself.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“But hope is fragile. It isn't infinite.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Sometimes hope just isn't enough. It isn't meant to save people.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Because if we chose to only love what we didn't lose, then we would never love at all.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“The thing about hope is that it is a fearful reaction. We are hopeful because we are afraid. Because we think on some level we are owed. But this story was never about the hope that arises in catastrophic moments. That hope is passive, not a being, but a state of being.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“After all, suns cannot see their own light.”
― Lancali .

“A chronic illness is not difficult to live with because it is endless. It is difficult to live with because it is unpredictable. But like grief, every flare ends, and though the looming threat is constant, you learn to live beside it. A shadow of mixed blessings. It does not heal as wounds do, but it teaches you of your own strength till you can wear it like a battle scar.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Forever is an impossible dream, but it's what makes you hold on this way. It's the hope of it that binds you to the other person with memories of all extraordinary and all mundane moments you spent together.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“In one way or another, all first loves are lost.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“In the end, mean or kind, the world is full of people who are all similar. We are bone and blood, and some consciousness tied to it. So, don't give your enemies the satisfaction of watching life go by, and whether it be a passion, a place, a person, or just a lonely friend bound to ink and paper, love as hard and as long as you can.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“There was before you and there was during you. For some reason, I never thought there would be an after you. but there was, and I was in it. I'll be in it forever.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him