Nicole

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
― Tim Fargo

“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Borders of Infinity