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Top 15 Nicci French Quotes (2025 Update)

Nicci French Quote: “You become like a ghost in your own life.”

1. “You become like a ghost in your own life.”

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Nicci French Quote: “Real life is an overrated idea.”

2. “Real life is an overrated idea.”

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Nicci French Quote: “Depression is a grim and blinding curse: you can’t see outside it. You can’t see hope, or love, or how spring will follow winter.”

3. “Depression is a grim and blinding curse: you can’t see outside it. You can’t see hope, or love, or how spring will follow winter.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “Perhaps because smoking can be a way of getting through the time, when you don’t know how to endure things,” said Frieda. “For a few minutes, that’s what you’re doing: you’re smoking a cigarette.”

4. “Perhaps because smoking can be a way of getting through the time, when you don’t know how to endure things,” said Frieda. “For a few minutes, that’s what you’re doing: you’re smoking a cigarette.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “She had Googled psychogeography, just to make sure she wasn’t getting it wrong. It was, she discovered, about playfulness, about drifting around urban environments, about getting away from your normal routes, about opening yourself up to randomness.”

5. “She had Googled psychogeography, just to make sure she wasn’t getting it wrong. It was, she discovered, about playfulness, about drifting around urban environments, about getting away from your normal routes, about opening yourself up to randomness.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “Within families, you’re stuck with the character they think you are, whatever you do. You become a war hero and all that your parents ever talk about is something supposedly funny you used to do when you were in nursery school.”

6. “Within families, you’re stuck with the character they think you are, whatever you do. You become a war hero and all that your parents ever talk about is something supposedly funny you used to do when you were in nursery school.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “She wanted to walk until her body and mind were exhausted. Her snug house felt like a distant goal, a place she had to achieve through enormous physical effort.”

7. “She wanted to walk until her body and mind were exhausted. Her snug house felt like a distant goal, a place she had to achieve through enormous physical effort.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “And how do you undo damage that’s been built into the foundations? With houses, it’s easier to pull the whole thing down and start again. You can’t do that with people.”

8. “And how do you undo damage that’s been built into the foundations? With houses, it’s easier to pull the whole thing down and start again. You can’t do that with people.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “It was the most silent, beautiful city I had ever been in, and I found myself wishing, once or twice, that I was here alone, not worrying about our relationship, not having to make an effort. I would have walked and walked along the deserted paths, not speaking, storing everything up. I wouldn’t have minded the rain.”

9. “It was the most silent, beautiful city I had ever been in, and I found myself wishing, once or twice, that I was here alone, not worrying about our relationship, not having to make an effort. I would have walked and walked along the deserted paths, not speaking, storing everything up. I wouldn’t have minded the rain.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “It’s what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself.”

10. “It’s what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “No. This is stuff that is from the first half of the alphabet. But I’m not completely consistent. Sometimes I go by the first name and sometimes by the second, then forget which I’ve done.”

11. “No. This is stuff that is from the first half of the alphabet. But I’m not completely consistent. Sometimes I go by the first name and sometimes by the second, then forget which I’ve done.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “I don’t want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me.”

12. “I don’t want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “Pauline had once said to me, after she was through the worst of her stunned unhappiness, that if you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be.”

13. “Pauline had once said to me, after she was through the worst of her stunned unhappiness, that if you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “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 rolls you up and away.”

14. “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 rolls you up and away.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “We’re always freer than we know.”

15. “We’re always freer than we know.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “Better to start too slowly and build up,” said a piece of text in italics, “than start too quickly and give up.”

16. “Better to start too slowly and build up,” said a piece of text in italics, “than start too quickly and give up.”

— Nicci French

Nicci French Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Nicci French Quote: “George Eliot: “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

18. “George Eliot: “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— Nicci French

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