17 Quotes by Nikki Gemmell

And I am in love with light. Lock me in the sunshine.

Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is a beauty to gracious acceptance, an energy that leads to peace.

People without curiosity are like houses without books: there’s something unsettling about them.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

You don’t dare to think ahead too much, for you don’t want this melted under the heat of your attention, don’t want it gone from your life.

The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that – not letting themselves be happy. I sometimes think that happiness is the only thing that counts.

An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone’s passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you’ve ever been is within a marriage, as a wife.

An English friend says Australia seems so messy to her: ‘Because of all the overhead wires – we don’t have them like you do. Your country towns seem so untidy. The barbed wire for fences, all of that’.