Love, Nina Quotes

“I’ll think about going (to yoga). But I’m not sure I want to be that relaxed. I am who I am and I might not do so well as a relaxed person.”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home

“No one wants to set foot outside unless it's to go somewhere”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

“We all love to know what other people have for tea”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

“It looked like the basket of someone keen to live life to the full”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

“They don't need judging, they self judge”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

“Me: What will I do?

MK: What you always do--only in Switzerland.”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

“Beach disappointing and the whole place pleased with itself for no real reason.”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina

“People fiddle with worry beads a lot in Greece. They find it soothing. It’s instead of biting their nails.”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina

“A man told us that every new building in Greece now is left slightly incomplete, usually the roof and plumbing, because when a building’s finished the owner pays some kind of tax.”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina

“Will reads a lot. In various places. He looks serious (even worried) when he reads. Me: Is the book OK? Will: It’s hilarious. Me: But you look so serious. Will: I’m laughing on the inside. Sam: I hate it when people laugh out loud when they read. Will: Me too, that’s why I hide it. Sam: They’re showing off about reading a funny book. Will: About finding it funny. AB: (from kitchen table) I think you’re allowed to laugh if something amuses you. Sam: Not a book. AB: I think one’s allowed an involuntary snort … or two. MK: One.”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

“Remember what I said. There's always a lot of autobiography in fiction and fiction in autobiography. It has to be that way otherwise they'd be unreadable (except by the author).”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

“AB is an admirer of Les Dawson. AB says that only an extremely accomplished pianist could to play as badly as Les Dawson (pretends to do). Maybe it's the same with S. Beckett. He could write a really good (sensible) play that everyone would get, but he doesn't.
Like Les Dawson, he's pretending to be crap. Which you can only do if you're a genius.”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

“- Anyway, I don't believe every cloud has a silver lining.
- Why?
- They don't.
- But philosophically?
- No, some things are 100 percent total shit.”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

“Don't do that thing of making it an excuse to do less, do more”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

“Women have been ignored but have been their own worse enemy”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

“I like/love it”
― Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life