Nicole Potter

“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“As it turns out, what makes a dog adoptable has very little to do with dogs, a great deal to do with humans.”
― Steven Kotler, A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life

“This is what helps me sleep at night. Knowing that one of us stood up and refused to take it. One of us said, Fuck you, and struck back.

One of us became the wolf and bloodied her jaws so that others can live without fear.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

“If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars