4 Quotes & Sayings By Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith is the author of many novels, including the critically acclaimed and bestselling Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, which was adapted into an international best-selling movie. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. Her stories have won awards from the Bram Stoker Awards (including Best Novella, Best Short Story, and Best Collection), the World Fantasy Award (for Best Novella), the Shirley Jackson Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Locus Award for Best Novella, and others. She is also a recipient of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for her novella "A Properly Disturbed Affair." She lives in New York City.

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Always know what they want to hear - not just what everyone knew they wanted to hear but what they didn't even dare name to themselves. Show them the pattern. Give them permission to do what they wanted all along. Nicola Griffith
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She knew them by their thick woven cloaks, their hanging hair and beards, and their Anglisc voices: words drumming like apples spilt over wooden boards, round, rich, stirring. Like her father’s words, and her mother’s, and her sister’s. Utterly unlike Onnen’s otter-swift British or the dark liquid gleam of Irish. Hild spoke each to each. Apples to apples, otter to otter, gleam to gleam, though only when her mother wasn’t there. Nicola Griffith
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Dogs own space and cats own time. Nicola Griffith