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1 " It's what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself. "
― Nicci French , Friday on My Mind (Frieda Klein, #5)
2 " She never opened her mail in the middle of the day. Sometimes she forgot about it for a week or more until people rang to complain. Nor did she check her answering machine messages. In fact, it had only been in the last year that she had finally bought an answering machine, and she steadfastly refused to have a mobile, to the incredulity of all those around her, who didn’t believe that people could actually function without one. But Frieda wanted to be able to escape from incessant communications and demands. She didn’t want to be at anyone’s beck and call, and she liked cutting herself off from the urgent inanities of the world. When she was on her own, she liked to be truly alone. Out of contact and adrift. "
― Nicci French , Blue Monday (Frieda Klein, #1)
3 " 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. "
― Nicci French , Killing Me Softly
4 " I wake in the night. Or sometimes I don't wake in the night. It hardly seems to make a difference. "
― Nicci French , The Red Room
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― Nicci French , The Unheard
6 " I don't want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me. "
7 " Čuvajte se divnih dana. Loše stvari se dešavaju baš u tim divnim danima. Možda je to zbog činjenice da uvek kada ste srećni postajete nesrećni. Čuvajte se zacrtanih planova. Vaša pažnja je usresređena na plan, i to je trenutak kada stvari počinju da se dešavaju van vašeg vidokruga. "
8 " No hace falta estar familiarizado con la muerte para reconocerla. "
― Nicci French , What to do When Someone Dies
9 " 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. "
― Nicci French , Thursday's Child (Frieda Klein, #4)
10 " Todo el mundo tiene secretos. Todos hacemos cosas que no queremos que se sepan. "
11 " 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. "
― Nicci French , Land of the Living
12 " Πάντοτε αγαπούσε την αίσθηση των θαμμένων μυστικών που υπήρχαν σε μια μεγαλούπολη και του μυστηριώδους τρόπου με τον οποίο τα μυστικά αυτά μπορούσαν να κάνουν την εμφάνισή τους, αναπάντεχα, αποσπασματικά, πάνω στα παλιά κτίρια "
― Nicci French
13 " Δεν ξέρω... περιμένω να αρχίσει η πραγματική μου ζωή, η ζωή που υποτίθεται ότι θα είχα. Η πραγματική ζωή, ο πραγματικός έρωτας, δεν ξέρω... "
14 " 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. "
― Nicci French , Secret Smile
15 " 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. "
16 " 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. "
― Nicci French , Tuesday's Gone (Frieda Klein, #2)
17 " Within families, you’re stuck with the character they think you are, whatever you do. You become a war hero and all that your parents ever talk about is something supposedly funny you used to do when you were in nursery school. "
18 " Maybe I don’t want it to pass because that would mean an acceptance that life is like this: just a gradual process of loss. "
― Nicci French , Dark Saturday (Frieda Klein, #6)
19 " Real life is an overrated idea. "
20 " Τελικά πώς μετράς την απουσία; Είχαν υπάρξει λεπτά που έγιναν ώρες, και ώρες που ενώθηκαν σε μια άχαρη έρημο χωρίς ορίζοντα. Είχαν υπάρξει μέρες μουντές και βαριές σαν μολύβι, και ολόκληρες εβδομάδες στη διάρκεια των οποίων πίεζε τον εαυτό της να προχωρήσει μπροστά, βήμα βήμα διασχίζοντας την έρημο του χρόνου. "
