Nicky

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“to try to foretell the future without studying history is like trying to learn to read without bothering to learn the alphabet”
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

“A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all—it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists