Nikki

“Boys and men are earth and stone," my mama used to say. "But you girls, us women, we're water. We can wear away earth and stone, if it comes to it.”
― Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls

“But Faye’s opinion is that sometimes a crisis is not really a crisis at all—just a new beginning. Because one thing she’s learned through all this is that if a new beginning is really new, it will feel like a crisis. Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid. If you’re not afraid of it, then it’s not real change.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The people who came to her booth were seeking meaning and control - but they were looking in the wrong place. When they gave themselves over to superstition, they were giving up on shaping their own destiny.”
― Ruth Ware