Nikki Welch

“People don’t gather after a death to mourn, but rather to reaffirm why life matters and to remember to exult in the only one we’ll ever have. We hold funerals, memorials, celebrations—whatever you want to call them—to seek and to find the heart of the matter of this trip we call Life.”
― Heather Lende, Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer

“...people feel they can be revealing around me, that they can unbutton their lips and let slip intimate facts ad trust that I have the maturity to keep my mouth shut.”
― Timothy Schaffert, The Coffins of Little Hope

“Not all of the white working class struggles. I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores and social pressures. My grandparents embodied one type: old-fashioned, quietly faithful, self-reliant, hardworking. My mother and, increasingly, the entire neighborhood embodied another: consumerist, isolated, angry, distrustful.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“This is why I always say: "If your mother asks you to come beat up an elderly woman on the street for feeding stray cats, JUST SAY NO, it'll always come back to haunt you.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance