Nicole

“Yes. You'd ask why I like gardening so much, and I'd tell you that I was spending time with myself because I loved myself."
"That always stuck with me. And when Buck came around, you still gardened just as much."
"It lit her up from the inside out," Dad says. He smiles at Mom in the way he always does: like she makes the sun come out. "That's what love is, Scottie. It's letting someone be themselves.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy