Nicole Bennett

“A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other. ”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums