Nienke

“No regrets. We live our lives forwards, not backwards. So always make the best of what's in front of you.”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders

“Because you came for me.”
The words are a whisper, and there’s so much sudden emotion laden in her voice, in the taut lines of her face, that I feel my throat grow thick.
“Always.” The word is a promise, binding as if I had scored my arm open to the bone and bled for it. I meet her eyes again. “Always, Eden.”
― Rebecca Quinn, Entangled

“What I am is an adult woman with agency and the tools to make choices. Feel free to, you know, treat me accordingly.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“for an awful lot of people these days, vulnerability comes out as anger, pushing away anything that feels like it might pierce their shell. Steve watches people on TV sometimes, shouting the odds about this, that, or the other, railing against the truth of reality, and he always sees the pain first. They have lost someone, or they never had someone, and so now they have lost themselves.”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders