Ashlea Nicol

“Sorry, I just need a minute,” she said. “I hate driving to new places. I hate worrying about what the parking situation is going to be somewhere I’ve never been before. And I’m about to let this random person I’ve never met do god knows what to my hair, and—”
― Alicia Thompson, The Art of Catching Feelings

“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen