Nikki

“In a book I am reading the author talks about word people versus fist people. As if words could not also be fists. Aren't often fists.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

“Because it’s all about the rhythm, you said. Good sentences start with a beat.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

“Once again I come upon his famous definition of love: two solitudes that protect and border and greet each other.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

“Tempted to put too much faith in the great male mind, remember this: It looked at cats and declared them gods. It looked at women and asked, Are they human? And, once that nut had been cracked: But do they have souls?”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend