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“Once you know something, you forget what it was like to not know it.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“In her three decades as a journalist, as the headlines seemed to grow ever more grim, Deborah had seen the words shed their weight a little more with each occurrence, until they barely resembled the dense nouns and heavy adjectives that once pressed upon entire rooms.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“You didn’t need to die and be reborn in order to shift from one life to the next,”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure