Nicole

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Design doesn't need to be delightful for it to work, but that's like saying food doesn't need to be tasty to keep us alive.”
― Frank Chimero, The Shape of Design

“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life