“Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he… — Nicole Mones Freedom Copy Share Image
“Everything looks different. The houses are all these wild colors. The light is strange. It smells primeval. You're on Mars." "You are… — Nicole Mones Wanderlust Copy Share Image
“She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A… — Nicole Mones Heart and mind Copy Share Image
“full of rage at a world which seemed all wrong to her and dreaming about someplace where she would belong, really belong.” — Nicole Mones Anger Copy Share Image
“Breaking some respected boundaries means a torrent of new life.” — Nicole Mones Life Copy Share Image
“Did you really love her? Did you really enter her heart and mind? Or did the two of you always remain outside… — Nicole Mones Heart and mind Copy Share Image
“Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know… — Nicole Mones Desire Copy Share Image
“He looked at her. There was something about her. When he was with her he felt happy, excited; when he was apart… — Nicole Mones Copy Share Image
“She shrugged, knowing all too well how easy it was to long for a different life, how hard it was to find… — Nicole Mones Different life Copy Share Image
“She, too, could become someone else. Eventually. Or she'd told herself all these years.” — Nicole Mones Copy Share Image
“I don't hope," he answered, eyes on her. "I never hope. I just live in gratitude for what comes.” — Nicole Mones Gratitude Copy Share Image
“He had heard it sure enough, wailing underground in clubs and speakeasies, all through Prohibition, hot, polyphonic, toe-tapping, full of syncopated rhythms… — Nicole Mones Copy Share Image
“If there was one thing she knew by then, by age twenty-two, it was that she had to get far away and… — Nicole Mones Copy Share Image
But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You… — Nicole Mones Fear Copy Share Image
“Grief is a killer, isn't it?" he said. "Brings you right up to the truth.” — Nicole Mones Death Copy Share Image
So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to… — Nicole Mones Enjoy Copy Share Image
“An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, An inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.” — Nicole Mones Time Copy Share Image
“Yuan Mei, one of China’s great gourmets, once asked his cook why, since he was so gifted and could produce great delicacies… — Nicole Mones Family Copy Share Image
“I don't believe fundamentally in anything but the awakening of spirit, hope, and freedom.” — Nicole Mones Freedom Copy Share Image
“A door to an alternate self. This self was another Alice, not the childhood Alice: capable, free in the world, independent.” — Nicole Mones Identity Copy Share Image
