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

“One can only go for so long without asking ‘who am I?’, ‘where do I come from?’, ‘what does all this mean?’, ‘what is being?’, ‘what came before me and what might come after?’. Without answers there is only a hole. A hole where a history should be that takes the shape of an endless longing. We are cavities.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“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

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