Nicole

“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
― Rebecca Makkai