Nicole Brugger

“I try, I do. I try and try. A happy ending?”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“When you paint an evil thing, do you invoke it or take away its power?”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“the sails
in wind and the slap of waves on the hull
of a boat that's sinking to the sound of mermaids
singing songs of love, and the tug of a simple
profound sadness when it sounds so far away.”
― Richard Siken, Crush