29 Quotes by Nick Lake

her fury at being trapped, confined in so much huge emptiness

It is easier to trick with charm than with aggression.

Behind the mountain is another mountain; behind the fire is another fire.

It’s so hard, when you fall for someone – the temptation is to look back on the past and rewrite things so they seem more significant. There’s a part of me going: Did I know? Did I know the first time we met that you would change everything? That you would change me?

I have always been good at reading, but I have never been good at reading between the lines.

I mean, she was just cool, you know? And she didn’t even mean to be. She was just a hundred-watt lightbulb in a world of forty-watt bulbs. She shone.

What is with people who don’t read novels? I mean, what kind of life is that?

I have a tingly feeling that I get when there are books all around me. The library! I know it’s geeky, but I love it. Just sitting between the shelves of books, reading – it’s the safest feeling.

Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else’s life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.