Nicole

“For my Em. Don’t wait this long. Come let me love you.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“When you love someone so much that you’ve stuck around through all the interesting things that have happened to them and you have nothing left to say, when you know the course of their day before they even tell you, when you lie next to them and hold their hand even though they haven’t said one interesting thing in days, that’s a love I want. It’s the love I was on target for.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“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

“Mama loved him too much to leave him. Still, even now, with her face bruised and swollen. Maybe what she’d always said was true, maybe she couldn’t breathe without him, maybe she’d wilt like a flower without”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone