Catherine Nipps

“I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to potentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper