The Photographer's Wife Quotes

“Don’t think you know what battles I had to fight to get where I am today. Don’t think you can even imagine what suffering we had to go through, what secrets we had to hide. You think you know everything but you know nothing. You don’t know me – you don’t know anyone. Because that’s what life is. It’s thinking you know everything, and thinking you know everyone, and finding out, the older you get, that you didn’t – that you had it all wrong.” - B. Marsden.”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“I’m overreacting, probably,” Sophie says. “I just get a little bored with the abused-women-equals-art thing. It just all seems a bit eighties to me. Do you know what I mean?”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“pain. And this in turn feeds into her cycle of anxiety and confusion and pain all over again because everything around her is saying that these are not the emotions she’s supposed to be feeling”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“loves it, in fact, as much as anything she has ever done. After the brain deadening years of child-rearing, she feels like she is waking up, feels as if her mind is stirring after a long sleep, spluttering and juddering into motion. She enjoys the hours spent in the red light of the darkroom too, thrills (more than she”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“that those who are no longer with us remain with us specifically through our memories of them. That memories are perhaps more than just recordings, that they are the actual essence of the people we have known, the places we have been, lingering on long after the event, like time travellers, like ghosts.”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“Something about being overwhelmed, just momentarily, by the beauty of existence.”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“Happiness is a relative concept.”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“Isn't life that much easier when you decide to want what is rather than trying to bend life to fit what you want instead?”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“Much of the time, things had been neutral-- they had behaved like a well oiled machine, like a couple of partners running the business that was their marriage. And aren't most marriages like that most of the time? The good ones, at any rate.”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“Warf. The space”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“something. “Mum,” perhaps. Everyone is looking at her. Sixty people have turned to stare. Perhaps they’d”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“Malgré tout, elle se sent obligée d'assister à ce genre de vernissage. Elle doit se tenir au courant des dernières tendances et comprendre pourquoi ça marche. Par-dessus tout, il lui faut trouver un moyen d'insuffler une dose de l'engouement ambiant dans son propre travail. Mais comment faire ? Comment doit-elle s'y prendre pour que les gens s'extasient subitement devant ses photos à elle ? Peut-être faut-il choquer, tout simplement— et si c'était ça, le secret ?”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“Barbara ne pose pas de question. elle ne veut pas savoir ce qui s'est passé. Ce qu'elle sait, c'est que chacun ici reçoit son lot de malheurs et qu'il ne sert à rien de les partager, qu'en parler ne fait qu'alourdir le fardeau des autres. C'est une immense leçon de vie qu'elle n'oubliera jamais.”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“La peur est tellement envahissante, tellement omniprésente, qu'elle en devient presque normale. Il n'en demeure pas moins que vivre sous l'emprise de la peur, même quand elle ne vous quitte jamais, est une expérience éprouvante [...].”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“But Minnie isn’t tired. And she isn’t sleeping either. She has simply run out of courage. It’s not, as everyone keeps pretending, an unlimited resource. Because”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“Fifty Shades. The S&M novel?”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife

“the”
― Nick Alexander, The Photographer's Wife