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

“You can’t choose blindness when it suits you. Not anymore.”
― Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

“A pushover is a bad thing to be, but an opinionated pushover is a worse thing to be. A pushover is nice and goes along with it, whatever it is. An opinionated pushover acts nice and goes along with it, but while quietly brooding and resentful. I am an opinionated pushover.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“Magic is everywhere...Even humans carry a spark of it in their fragile, fickle souls. All you need to do is reach out and find it.”
― Heather Walter, Malice