Nikki Kirsch

“No, not even a line. It was a single word, inked thinly and carefully between the lines of the inventory, like a spider hanging barely visible in a corner. אהבתי‏ An assault, a rebuke across the years. An outstretched hand. The inverted letters spelled the single Hebrew word that meant “I loved.”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“For every loyalty, whether to self or community, does impose a blindness, and each love does threaten to blur vision, as few can bear to see truth if it harm that which is dear to us.”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“It is a solid commitment to the recognition that people essentially do what they have to with what they have, and that given more, more will be done.”
― Danna R. Bodenheimer, Real World Clinical Social Work: Find Your Voice and Find Your Way

“I was creating an experience for myself because of a belief I had about myself that may not actually be true.”
― Suzanne Jones, There Is Nothing to Fix: Becoming Whole Through Radical Self-Acceptance