Nicola Rayner > Quotes

“The beauty of it is too much, so that I have to close my eyes. The people who live here have everything, I think, but they don't want to share any of it.”
― Nicola Rayner, You and Me

“She had read recently about the effect of losing a long-term partner being like a loss of self because it was, actually, in a way, a loss of yourself. We store memories in other people:”
― Nicola Rayner, The Girl Before You

“These violent delights have violent ends.”
― Nicola Rayner, The Girl Before You

“It seems selfish to say it but, for women like me, there can be a sadness to other women's pregnancies. They remind us of the division between the mothers and the un-mothers - the unknown world the women we love are about to enter. How we'll never really get them back.”
― Nicola Rayner, You and Me

“Christie, she noticed, never drank too much. She sipped her drinks, put them down for long stretches of time, and seemed to listen intently to other people without saying a huge amount herself.”
― Nicola Rayner, The Girl Before You

“There is a moment,’ she holds up a finger as if giving a soliloquy on stage, ‘when something stops being a source of pleasure and becomes a source of pain. It is so precise, so exact, it could be plotted on a graph.”
― Nicola Rayner, The Girl Before You