Nicole

“He started to cry, and in that moment, I left my body for a second and just saw the scene. Nick in tears, and this girl keeping a poker face like a hostage eyeing the door. Jessica, you should cry, I told myself. I thought it would make him feel better. I couldn’t. I’d been living with sadness so long that I was used to the feeling. “Please”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“Yes. I am. I’m sorry, Evan; please forgive me. But we’re both to blame for…’ She stops herself short, doesn’t want to sound like she’s trying to make him responsible for her actions. She knows she’ll just have to wear it. ‘I know I shouldn’t have done this; I know it was wrong, but I don’t want to live a lie, and I don’t want you to, either. You deserve honesty; we both deserve to be happy – everyone does, don’t they?”
― Anna-Lou Weatherley, The Stranger's Wife

“but at the same time, it feels like poor taste to talk about what we’ll get when someone dies before they are dead.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law

“That’s what happens when you lose a parent at such an early age. You have an unnatural preoccupation with death and dying.”
― Kimberly Belle, Dear Wife