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21 " [...] I hate Mondays, don't you?""Not really "
― Nicci French , Blue Monday (Frieda Klein, #1)
22 " 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. "
― Nicci French , The Day of the Dead (Frieda Klein #8)
23 " 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. "
― Nicci French , Tuesday's Gone (Frieda Klein, #2)
24 " It was the most silent, beautiful city I had ever been in, and I found myself wishing, once or twice, that I was here alone, not worrying about our relationship, not having to make an effort. I would have walked and walked along the deserted paths, not speaking, storing everything up. I wouldn't have minded the rain. "
― Nicci French , Secret Smile
25 " 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. "
26 " Pauline had once said to me, after she was through the worst of her stunned unhappiness, that if you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. "
― Nicci French , Killing Me Softly
27 " Better to start too slowly and build up,” said a piece of text in italics, “than start too quickly and give up. "
28 " Δεν στοιχηματίζω ποτέ. Ειδικά όταν έχω δίκιο. "
― Nicci French , Dark Saturday (Frieda Klein, #6)
29 " We’re always freer than we know. "
― Nicci French , Thursday's Child (Frieda Klein, #4)
30 " You become like a ghost in your own life "
31 " you’re one of those friends I can be silent with. "
32 " 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. "
33 " You never step into the same river twice, "
34 " Ήταν άραγε κατάρα που η πόλη αυτή ήταν τόσο πολύ σημαδεμένη από το παρελθόν της ή μήπως αυτός είναι τελικά ο μοναδικός τρόπος μιας πόλης να υπάρχει; "
35 " No. This is stuff that is from the first half of the alphabet. But I’m not completely consistent. Sometimes I go by the first name and sometimes by the second, then forget which I’ve done. "
36 " A police force is about political influence, and it always has been. If I can’t get up the home secretary’s arse and get you the funding that you’re pissing away, you won’t be in a position to solve your crimes, any of you. "
― Nicci French , Waiting for Wednesday (Frieda Klein, #3)
37 " George Eliot: “It is never too late to be what you might have been. "
38 " Είναι όπως το χειμώνα. Απλώς περπατώ με κόπο ενάντια στον άνεμο, με το κεφάλι κατεβασμένο και ελπίζω πως η άνοιξη δεν θα αργήσει. "
39 " We’re all afraid to acknowledge the freedom we really have. "
40 " Talking hurts the way hurting doesn't. "