Nicole Brown

“It occurs to Blanche that English doesn't have French's useful distinction between libre, meaning that something's unconstrained, and gratuit, meaning that it costs nothing. Free thought, free speech, free love: the English word that Arthur was so fond of obscures the price of things.”
― Emma Donoghue, Frog Music

“Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Frog Music

“Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.”
― Mary Chase, Harvey

“There are friends, I think we can't imagine living without. People who are sisters to us, or brothers. Jimmy was one of those. I never thought I might have to go through life without him. I never thought he might be killed by a drunken driver or anything else. Who thinks about things like that when you're seventeen? If I had known ahead of time what was going to happen to him, I would have gone crazy. I guess I did go a little crazy. My Aunt Lo, who's a hospital psychiatrist, says grief travels a certain route-that if you could plot it out on a map you'd have a line that twists and weaves and eventually ends up near the point of departure. I say "near" because although
you may survive the grief, you won't ever be exactly the same. It took me a long time to learn that, and sometimes the whole experience comes back on me and I have to learn it all over again.”
― Julie Reece Deaver, Say Goodnight, Gracie