Nicola Barker Quotes

#1. I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

Patrick Ness

#2. If God should show mercy only to such as deserve it, he must show mercy to none.

Thomas Watson

#3. He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec's turn to bring out the hero in him

E. M. Forster

#4. What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

Edward Young

#5. Layering is always a great way to look different and to keep your look younger. Basic tees, vest tops, jackets, leggings, shrugs, etc, can be mixed up to add spunk, variety and colour to your look. A good sense of mix 'n' match is required to make this look work.

Tena Desae

#6. Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#7. We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise.

Jesse Ball

#8. Semaphored warning as well as I could. He took the hint.

Elizabeth Peters

#9. I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.

Margot Asquith

#10. The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.

D.L. Moody

#11. The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, "To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls." Another one said, "To describe blow-jobs artistically.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.

Molly Crabapple

#13. The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.

Nicola Barker

#14. She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.

Edith Wharton

#15. Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful ...

Nicola Barker