Quotes from Secret Smile

“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, quote from Secret Smile

“it was like glass sandpaper being rubbed on my skin.”
― Nicci French, quote from Secret Smile

“Better to start too slowly and build up,” said a piece of text in italics, “than start too quickly and give up.”
― Nicci French, quote from Secret Smile

“If you call the day after, you’re maybe a bit desperate because, since the first day is out of the question, the second day is really the first day, so you’re calling on the first day. If they’re going to call, people call on the third day.”
― Nicci French, quote from Secret Smile

“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, quote from Secret Smile

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“When jumbled up, the letters contained in the name Taarak Vakil now spelt out a name that every theologian in India would be familiar with. Kalki avatar—the tenth incarnation of Vishnu.”
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“Драти Тео,

Отново съм без средства. Зная какъв товар съм за тебе, но към кого друг да се обърна? Необходими са ми пари за материали! Сега използвам почти изключително зъбни копринени нишки, импровизирам в процеса на работа и резултатите са вълнуващи. Боже Господи! Дори за новокаин нямам пукната пара! Днес вадих зъб и се наложи да упоя пациента, като му четох цитати от Драйзер. Помощ!

Винсент

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Драги Тео,

Реших да работя в един кабинет с Гоген. Чудесен зъболекар е, специалист по мостове, а по всичко личи, че и той ме харесва. Похвали много работата ми с господин Джей Грийнглас. Ако си спомняш, бях пломбирал долния му седми зъб, но после презрях пломбата и се опитах да я извадя. Грийнглас решително възрази, та се стигна до съд. Постави се законният въпрос за собствеността на пломбата и по съвета на адвоката ми го осъдих за целия зъб, а после се разбрахме само за пломбата. И представи си, някой я е зърнал в един от ъглите на кабинета ми и иска да я изложа!

Винсент”
― Woody Allen, quote from Without Feathers

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