Nicole Caldwell

“the day you have everything
i hope you remember
when you had nothing”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“That naive version of myself felt like a friend I’d long lost contact with.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say

“Life doesn’t work that way, Alina. Hatred spreads—it doesn’t burn out with time. Someone needs to stand up and stop it. You watch, sister—when they’re done with the Jews, it will be our turn again. Besides, even if we could ride out the war with our heads down, and we sat back while the Nazis worked all of our Jewish friends to death, what kind of Poland could be rebuilt once they were gone? Those people are as important to this country as we are. We’re better off dying with honor than sitting back to watch our countrymen suffer,” he said.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say

“To destabilize a group of people is not at all difficult, not if you are willing to be cruel enough. You simply knock out the foundations, and a natural consequence is that the rest begins to tumble. The Nazis knew this—and that’s why one of their very first tactics in Poland was to execute or imprison those likely to lead in any uprising against them.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say