Nicole

“Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Sometimes I imagine a whole future made out of the moment after I've died and you are still sitting beside me.'
'You imagine I'll be there at your deathbed?'
'Yes.'
'And if I stayed away, would you live for ever?”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck

“I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow.

Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance