Nicole Rethmeier

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

“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

“At the first of the funerals the bishop of Coventry said, “Let us vow before God to be better friends and neighbors in the future, because we have suffered this together and have stood here today.”
― Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

“The old religion had nearly ceased to be a faith; at most it was a mere habit of thought and expression”
― Lew Wallace, Ben Hur