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“Maybe the boxes are like that, too. Nobody can offer any foolproof explanation for them, so they just end up meaning whatever we want them to mean — whether that’s God or fate or magic. And no matter how long your string is, that, too, can mean whatever you want it to — a license to behave however you want, to stop dieting, to seek revenge, to quit your job, to take a risk, to travel the world.”
― 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

“And I miss talking about the little things, especially in a city filled with so many wonderful little things.”
― 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