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

“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

“The best antidote for sadness, I have always believed, is tackling something that you don't know how to do.”
― Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

“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