Nicolette

“If we could just be on earth at the same place and same time as everyone we loved, if we could be born together and die together, it would be so simple.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“My heart is made of glass and if I ever lose you, Betty, my heart will break into more hurt than eternity would have time to heal.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

“I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn’t change, it couldn’t turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“Some men know the exact amount of money in their bank accounts,” she continued. “Other men know how many miles are on their car and how many more miles it’ll handle. Other men know the batting average of their favorite baseball player and more other men know the exact sum Uncle Sam has screwed ’em. Your father knows no such figures. The only numbers Landon Carpenter has in his head are the numbers of stars in the sky on the days his children were born. I don’t know about you, but I would say that a man who has skies in his head full of the stars of his children, is a man who deserves his child’s love. Especially from the child with the most stars.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, Betty