Nicole B.

“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

“People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin