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1 " 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)
2 " We’re always freer than we know. "
3 " you’re one of those friends I can be silent with. "
4 " You never step into the same river twice, "
5 " There was a pause. Frieda was about to stand up and fetch the nurse when David spoke again, in a quiet voice. “That—that thing you say happened to you . . .” “The rape,” said Frieda. “It has a name.” “Yes. Well. Are you—I mean, what’s going on with that?” Frieda looked at her mother, who had never believed her story and who now never would. “I don’t want to talk about it, David.” “That’s probably for the best.” He sounded relieved. “I mean, it’s all in the past and sometimes you just have to let sleeping dogs lie.” Wake up those dogs, thought Frieda. Set them loose on the world. "
6 " That was one reason why she got up in the middle of the night. The streets and lights and noises and smells of the city, the cold air of the very early morning, they were a way of controlling her thinking, of calming it, damping it down. "
7 " Η Πέμπτη είναι ίσως η χειρότερη ημέρα της εβδομάδας. Δεν είναι απολύτως τίποτε από μόνη της. Απλώς βρίσκεται εκεί για να σου υπενθυμίζει πόσο ατελείωτη είναι η εβδομάδα σου. "
8 " Νομίζω πως μερικές φορές η ζωή μπορεί να μας φαίνεται σαν ένας δρόμος χωρίς στροφές, που απλώνεται μπροστά μας χωρίς να βλέπουμε την προοπτική καμίας αλλαγής. [...] Κι εμείς απλώς σερνόμαστε κατά μήκος του. "