Nicole

“I’ve come to the conclusion that there are no set rules in life. You do what you have to do to survive. If that means running away from the love of your life to preserve your sanity, you do it. If it means breaking someone’s heart so yours doesn’t break; do it. Life is complicated — too much so for there to be absolutes. We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you’ll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves. Olivia has stopped rattling quite as much as she used to. Love is a God-given tool, she tells me. It screws things back in place that were loose, and it cleans out all the broken pieces that you don’t need anymore. I believe her. Our love has been fixing each other. I hope to only hear a tiny jingle when I shake her in a few years”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“It is the firstborn’s burden to unravel the knots that younger brothers make.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“Wherever we go in the next life, we’ll be together,” I say.
"Let’s not go to hell then, that’s where Leah will be.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Remember there is always a choice. I chose to live. I chose to love. I chose to breathe.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Out of Breath