Sharon

“but any time Ellis invited a man into her bed—most recently her teammate at the Poppy Fields, Flynn, for just one night, though still it was a huge mistake—she remembered that she couldn’t sleep comfortably with someone else beside her, disrupting her peace whenever they turned. For someone rather neat and organized in her waking life, Ellis slept like a sloppy starfish, limbs akimbo across the mattress. She simply took up too much space to accommodate anyone else, and she declined to pursue the possibility that there could be someone out there for whom she might not mind moving over.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Poppy Fields

“Love changes us. It strengthens us, and dents us, and lifts us, and guides us. If we sleep, if we suffer the side effect, if we're no longer shaped by the people we love... who are we?”
― Nikki Erlick, The Poppy Fields

“Tuesday, deep cleaning to give meaning. Wednesday, bath and kitchen. Thursday, dust we must. Friday, wash-and-dry day. Saturday, wild card. Sunday, shop and chop.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“That the beginning and the end may have been chosen for us, the string already spun, but the middle had always been left undetermined, to be woven and shaped by us.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure