“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… — Nicci French Copy Share Image
“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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