Nicole

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. —John A. Shedd”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles