Nicole Rethmeier

“I don't think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, and not the other way.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“It is the nature of the earth to shift. It is the nature of fragile things to break. It is the nature of fire to burn. And just as it is the nature of men and women to build, it is also in our nature to begin again after disaster. This I know, too.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“It is the nature of the earth to shift. It is the nature of fragile things to break. It is the nature of fire to burn.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I’d learned an important lesson: When something frightens me, it is definitely worth doing.”
― Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir