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1 " 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)
2 " Real life is an overrated idea. "
3 " 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. "
4 " 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. "
5 " You become like a ghost in your own life "
6 " Είναι όπως το χειμώνα. Απλώς περπατώ με κόπο ενάντια στον άνεμο, με το κεφάλι κατεβασμένο και ελπίζω πως η άνοιξη δεν θα αργήσει. "
7 " We’re all afraid to acknowledge the freedom we really have. "
8 " What people discover about themselves during therapy may not lead to peace or to happiness. Indeed, it often doesn’t. But it can lead to the possibility of turning what is unbearable into what is bearable, of taking responsibility for yourself and having a degree of control over your own life. "
9 " know lots of doctors who think everything would be fine if it weren’t for the patients. "
10 " would say that a lot of the science that ends up helping people is undertaken by men and women who are doing it for its own sake, and that going around weeping for those who suffer doesn’t mean you’re actually doing anything to help them. "
11 " Making a shape out of mess, as Jack put it; the instinct in us all, something deeply human and fearful. Glancing "
12 " the public knew, he thought, his feet in their heavy boots sliding among the syringes, if they knew how some people lived and how they died. "
13 " You don’t know what you’re going to do in a crisis,” said Frieda. “Until it happens. "
14 " Nobody tells you, when you’re young, what it will be like.” “What is it like?” “You become like a ghost in your own life. "
15 " She suspected that Harry would think fourteen months was a long time; most people would. How do you measure absence? There had been minutes that had become hours, and hours that had been like a desert with no horizon. There had been days dull and deadened as lead, and whole weeks when she’d had to force herself forward, inch by inch, across their expanse. How do you know when your heart is ready once more? Perhaps, for someone like her, the heart was never ready and had to be forced open. "
16 " How do you measure absence? There had been minutes that had become hours, and hours that had been like a desert with no horizon. There had been days dull and deadened as lead, and whole weeks when she’d had to force herself forward, inch by inch, across their expanse. How do you know when your heart is ready once more? "
17 " A good accountant or financial adviser is a kind of artist. You can turn people’s money into the most amazing creative possibilities, things they would never have dreamed of. "
18 " There’s this road you’re expected to be on. You’re supposed to do your GCSEs and then your A levels and then you go to uni and then you get a proper job. I can see my whole life in front of me like a great slab of tarmac. What if I don’t want it? "
19 " Frieda smiled. “It’s lesson number one in therapist school,” she said. “It’s the way of avoiding being put on the spot. So that whatever your patient says to you, you just say, ‘What do you mean by that?’ And then you’re off the hook. "
20 " However far you run from your family and try to expunge them from your life, they follow you. "
