Nicole

“Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst? Was it better not to hope at all, to prepare? Wasn’t that what her father’s lesson always was? Prepare for the worst.”
― 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

“It’s amazing the things you convince yourself of when you’re apartment hunting in New York.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Coming Clean

“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