5 Quotes & Sayings By Nicci French

Nicci French is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books, including the popular psychological thrillers The Bone Season and The Darkest Part of the Forest. She has been a finalist for both the Edgar and Macavity awards for best first mystery novel. Her short fiction has appeared in the Best American Mystery Stories, Asimov's Science Fiction, and Year's Best Mystery anthologies. Her debut novel, A Place Like Home, was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice, and her most recent novel, The Rise of Nine, was an Anthony Award nominee Read more

Her work has been translated into over twenty languages. She lives in London with her husband and two children. In between writing she works on charitable projects that help families living in poverty abroad.

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It's what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself. Nicci French
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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, to the incredulity of all those around her, who didn’t believe that people could actually function without one. But Frieda wanted to be able to escape from incessant communications and demands. She didn’t want to be at anyone’s beck and call, and she liked cutting herself off from the urgent inanities of the world. When she was on her own, she liked to be truly alone. Out of contact and adrift. Nicci French
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If you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. You have to go through the motions of surviving in order to survive. Nicci French
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I wake in the night. Or sometimes I don't wake in the night. It hardly seems to make a difference. Nicci French