Taylor Rodgers

“You can’t nice your way to being loved.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

“He looked at Sonia and felt how great was her love for him, and strange to say he felt it suddenly burdensome and painful to be so loved. Yes, it was a strange and awful sensation!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Collected Works: Crime and Punishment, Poor Folk, and More! (10 Works): Russian Classic Fiction

“If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the man.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

“Human kindness was like a sun shining upon him, and he flourished like a plant in good soil.”
― Jack London, White Fang