“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… — Nicci French Copy Share Image
“If you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. You have to go through the motions of surviving… — Nicci French Copy Share Image
“I don't want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me.” — Nicci French Copy Share Image
“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,… — Nicci French Copy Share
“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… — Nicci French Copy Share Image
“It made me realize how unimaginative I had always been about battered wives. Disaster creeps up, a tidal wave on the tourist beach. By… — Nicci French Copy Share Image
“She wanted to walk until her body and mind were exhausted. Her snug house felt like a distant goal, a place she had to… — Nicci French Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I wake in the night. Or sometimes I don't wake in the night. It hardly seems to make a difference.” — Nicci French Copy Share Image
“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… — Nicci French Copy Share Image
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