Nicole

“Sometimes it feels like a strength and sometimes like a weakness, but I don’t know how to stop loving him.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“It’s impossible to really hate someone if you don’t love them at least a little.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“Did adults just look at the world and see what they wanted to see, think what they wanted to think? Did evidence and experience mean nothing?”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“You can’t re-create the first time you promise to love someone or the first time you feel loved by another. You cannot relive the sensation of fear, admiration, self-consciousness, passion, and desire all mixed into one because it never happens twice. You chase it like the first high for the rest of your life. It doesn’t mean you can’t love another or move on; it just means that the one spontaneous moment, the split second that you took the leap, when your heart was racing and your mind was muddled with What ifs?—that moment—will never happen the same way again. It will never feel as intense as the first time.”
― Renee Carlino, Before We Were Strangers