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

“I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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

“She’d been in math classes with Quentin since they were ten years old, and anything he could do she could do just as well, backward and in high heels if necessary.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King