The anguish I always feel when she’s in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.
“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
“If you're not scared, you're not brave.”
― The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
― 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.”
― 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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