Nicole

“What you did mattered so much more than anything you said.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Grief was something that moved in and stayed. Maybe it moved from one side of the room to the other, farther away from the window, but it was always there.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Any story could be a comedy or a tragedy, depending on where you ended it. That was the magic, how the same story could be told an infinite number of ways.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“But it was not, her job to carry the full box. Her job was to sort through the box. To decide what to keep, and to put down the rest. She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising