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Nicola Everett
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“Sometimes I wonder if the purpose of my writing is to find out whether other people have done or felt the same things or, if not, for them to consider experiencing such things as normal. Maybe I would also like them to live out these very emotions in turn, forgetting that they had once read about them somewhere.”
― Simple Passion
― Simple Passion
“We love only once in our lives, my father had said, sometimes too early, sometimes too late; the other times are always a touch deliberate.”
― Enigma Variations
― Enigma Variations
“So I waited. Then I got used to waiting. Eventually, waiting was more real than what we had.”
― Enigma Variations
― Enigma Variations
“And then it hits me: I've lost you. You now rank among the things I'll always regret: opportunities lost, children never had, things I might have accomplished or done far better, lovers who have come and gone.”
― Enigma Variations
― Enigma Variations
“Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, "Emergency, emergency," and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing is has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has no been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families, too, to keep us quiet.”
― The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
― The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Nicola’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nicola’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,012 books
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216 friends
105 books
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131 books
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695 books
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28 friends
1,045 books
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303 friends
142 books
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27 friends
403 books
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154 friends
779 books
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67 friends
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