27 Quotes by Nicci French


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    She wanted to walk until her body and mind were exhausted. Her snug house felt like a distant goal, a place she had to achieve through enormous physical effort.

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    Depression is a grim and blinding curse: you can’t see outside it. You can’t see hope, or love, or how spring will follow winter.

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    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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    Perhaps because smoking can be a way of getting through the time, when you don’t know how to endure things,” said Frieda. “For a few minutes, that’s what you’re doing: you’re smoking a cigarette.

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    I don’t want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me.

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    She had Googled psychogeography, just to make sure she wasn’t getting it wrong. It was, she discovered, about playfulness, about drifting around urban environments, about getting away from your normal routes, about opening yourself up to randomness.

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