Katie

“It also meant she thought of books as medication and sanctuary and the source of all good things. Nothing yet had proven her wrong.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“People were... exhausting. They made her anxious. Leaving her apartment every morning was the turning over of a giant hourglass, the mental energy she’d stored up overnight eroding grain by grain. She refueled during the day by grabbing moments of solitude and sometimes felt her life was a long-distance swim between islands of silence.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“If you're not scared, you're not brave.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees