The anguish I always feel when she’s in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.
“If you're not scared, you're not brave.”
― The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
― The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
“It also meant she thought of books as medication and sanctuary and the source of all good things. Nothing yet had proven her wrong.”
― The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
― The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
“A lot of times when I think I’m being self-sufficient, I’m really just learning to live without the things that I need.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“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.”
― The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
― The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
“You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
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