Quotes from William Nicholson

She slapped Kestrel's face. Without thinking twice, Kestrel slapped her back, as hard as she could. The young woman burst into tears. The servant saw this, aghast. "Baby!" She exclaimed. "Oh, my poor baby!" "You've been kind to me," said Kestrel, "and you're very beautiful, but if you hit me again I'll kill you.

Today begins my walk with you...Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

Si todo lo que haces, lo haces para hacer otra cosa, ¿cuándo llegas al final de todo? Sisi

En realidad debería aceptar el dolor y darle alguna utilidad. A fin de cuentas, el dolor no es más que otra forma de energía. Caracás

Mi, hátramaradottak, utadra bocsátunk. Sok év rabság vaskapujáról leverve a lakat. Menj hát szabadon a gyönyör? országba. Bocsáss meg nekünk, e befelhÅ'zött világon szenvedÅ'knek. Vezess bennünket, várj bennünket, ahogyan mi téged várunk. Még viszontlátjuk egymást.

No es fácil. No es nada fácil. Piensa en todo lo que quiere hacer las cosas mal. Todo el miedo del mundo, la violencia que proviene del miedo, el odio que proviene de la violencia, la soledad que proviene del odio. Hanno Hath

I have no future,' said Hanno. 'I need no prophecy. You talk too much, woman.

Querer a los que tienen el poder es un instinto humano natural. El Maestro

Un acto de terror obliga a obedecer. Sin obediencia hay caos. Con obediencia llegan la paz y el orden. Primero obedecemos por temor. Después obedecemos por amor. Marius Semeon Ortiz

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

We read to know that we are not alone.

We write to know we are not alone

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

We read to know we are not alone.