Nicci French Quotes

#1. it was like glass sandpaper being rubbed on my skin.

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#2. Pauline had once said to me, after she was through the worst of her stunned unhappiness, that if you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be.

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#3. If you call the day after, you're maybe a bit desperate because, since the first day is out of the question, the second day is really the first day, so you're calling on the first day. If they're going to call, people call on the third day.

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#4. If I had to ask him to ask me, it wasn't going to work as an expression of concern. Like when you ask someone if they love you - if you have to ask them, they don't. Or not enough. Not the way you want them to.

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#5. I wake in the night. Or sometimes I don't wake in the night. It hardly seems to make a difference.

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#6. It's what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself.

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#7. It made me realize how unimaginative I had always been about battered wives. Disaster creeps up, a tidal wave on the tourist beach. By the time you can see it, you are powerless or unable to resist it and it rolls you up and away.

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#8. Better to start too slowly and build up," said a piece of text in italics, "than start too quickly and give up.

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#9. You never step into the same river twice,

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#10. There's a difference between doing something and being something, but they merge into each other. I mean, you play the piano a bit, and then more and more, and at some point you become a pianist. That's who you are.

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#11. And how do you undo damage that's been built into the foundations? With houses, it's easier to pull the whole thing down and start again. You can't do that with people.

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#12. If you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. You have to go through the motions of surviving in order to survive.

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#13. Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It's nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long.

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#14. I don't want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me.

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