Niki

“If it hurts, then no," I murmured, my voice muffled by the closeness of our bodies. "I can't handle more pain.”
― Jade Song, Chlorine

“We can feel like we have the best of intentions,” he whispers, “and still cause disaster.”
― Sara Raasch, The Nightmare Before Kissmas

“That’s really the golden age, isn’t it? That’s what my brain is longing for, a time when I only saw the sparkle. A time when I loved this unabashedly because I hadn’t realized that the sparkle was a distraction layered over a complex concept full of cracks and mold, and the day you see beyond the glitter for the first time is the day you officially grow up, no going back.”
― Sara Raasch, The Nightmare Before Kissmas

“It's more realistic to center on little things. One thing, each day, that isn't sullied by grief. One by one by one until you've started to rebuild the foundation that got obliterated. Because that's hwat happiness is, at the root. A foundation. And foundations aren't ever one thing, they're many little things interlocked together.”
― Sara Raasch, The Nightmare Before Kissmas