Nicki Salcedo > Nicki's Quotes

“We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn’t make them any less painful.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“Wherever she sought solitude, she was never alone. Suddenly that wasn't a bad thing. There was safety in numbers greater than one and sanity in knowing that everyone healed. If everyone has scars, there are two choices. Bleed to death slowly or stitch yourself together.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“If everyone could be brought low, then everyone could rise up.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“He preferred the bitterness of coffee. It was the one thing he got from his father that Graham wasn't ashamed of.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“He might be worried, but at least he's not upset with me. My family gets up set easily, and he got stuck helping me out. Wrong place. Wrong time. --She tried to turn her face to hide marks.

The nurse told her no. --Everything is right. Right place. Right time for both of you.

Are you from Jamaica? Ava asked, but she knew the answer. The woman had that terrible peace about her that some people were born with. There was no wrong. Everything could be made right.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“He appreciated all beautiful things. As she stood before him poised, scrutinizing every inch of his face, liable to strike him, he thought she was the most incredible thing he had seen in his life. She didn't step away from fear, she walked up to it.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“Quiet was another kind of warning.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“Ava knew the incidental betrayals of life.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“It is easy to pride yourself on brains when you had both brains and beauty. Beauty was fleeting, and here was the proof. It was gone.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“Only in art was cheerful condemned.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“A single shoe. Only someone under a spell would lose a shoe and not turn back for it.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“Everyone deserves something lovely, she said. It was something that she truly believed.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“What if the most courageous thing you do is hold a dying person's hand? That would be enough.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“Maybe there was healing in running when nothing chased you.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things

“We are all made of glass. Snow floats around us. We are delicately made, meant to be smashed.”
― Nicki Salcedo, All Beautiful Things