Nikki Welch

“...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

“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

“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

“The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit