Blue Monday Quotes

“She never opened her mail in the middle of the day. Sometimes she forgot about it for a week or more until people rang to complain. Nor did she check her answering machine messages. In fact, it had only been in the last year that she had finally bought an answering machine, and she steadfastly refused to have a mobile, to the incredulity of all those around her, who didn’t believe that people could actually function without one. But Frieda wanted to be able to escape from incessant communications and demands. She didn’t want to be at anyone’s beck and call, and she liked cutting herself off from the urgent inanities of the world. When she was on her own, she liked to be truly alone. Out of contact and adrift.”
― Nicci French, Blue Monday

“[...] I hate Mondays, don't you?"
"Not really”
― Nicci French, Blue Monday

“Ήταν άραγε κατάρα που η πόλη αυτή ήταν τόσο πολύ σημαδεμένη από το παρελθόν της ή μήπως αυτός είναι τελικά ο μοναδικός τρόπος μιας πόλης να υπάρχει;”
― Nicci French, Blue Monday

“Anger should be a weapon to be used discriminately, not a weakness and a loss of control.”
― Nicci French, Blue Monday

“You’ve got to let them make their own mistakes. All you can do is to follow and make sure they don’t scare the horses or get arrested or damage anyone apart from themselves.”
― Nicci French, Blue Monday

“Frieda felt that her heart was like some old chest that had been heaved up from the seabed, its barnacled lid prized open after all this time. Who knew what treasures she would find inside?”
― Nicci French, Blue Monday

“The muted November light made everything seem gray and still, like a pencil drawing.”
― Nicci French, Blue Monday

“He was forty-two, after all. This was just the age when men went off the rails, drank and bought motorbikes and had affairs, trying to be young again. But he didn’t want a motorbike and he didn’t want an affair. He didn’t want to be young again. All that awkwardness and pain, that sense of being in the wrong life.”
― Nicci French, Blue Monday

“but look,” he said, a little desperately. “What would the world be like if everyone settled things like this?” Frieda stood up. “What is the world like?” she said.”
― Nicci French, Blue Monday

“Sometimes it seemed that half the people around her were in states of collapse.”
― Nicci French, Blue Monday

“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, Blue Monday

“She loathed Christmas, and she loathed the run-up to Christmas, the frenzied shoppers, the tat in the shops, the lights that were put up too early in the streets, the Christmas songs that belted out from overheated shops day after day, the catalogues that poured through her door and into her bin, and above all the insistence on the value of family. Frieda did not value her family and they did not value Frieda. A great gulf lay between them, impassable. The”
― Nicci French, Blue Monday