Nikki Mendoza

“What's wrong with all of us, Bill? Can you tell me that?'
'Hell if I know', he said. 'We drink too much for starters. And we want too much, don't we?”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It’s everything in between we live for.”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch