Nicola Quotes

Trying not to smile only makes you smile more. ~ Nicola Yoon

Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything. ~ Nicola Yoon

Observable Fact: You should never take long shots. Better to study the odds and take the probable shot. However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it. ~ Nicola Yoon

I hear them say "Why do I miss someone I haven't even met?"
How about not missing someone because it feels like they've been with you all along? ~ Nicola An

I like Indian takeaway. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point? ~ Nicola Sturgeon

Madeline: I'm not a princess.
Madeline: And I don't need rescuing.
Olly: that's ok. i'm not prince.
Madeline: You think I'm pretty?
Olly: for a fairytale ghost sky princess? definately ~ Nicola Yoon

I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

I throw my hands up. 'There is nothing wrong with having dreams. I may be a stupid dreamer, but at least I have them.' 'Why is that a virtue?' she demands. 'All you dreamer types think the universe exists just for you and your passion.
'Better than not having any at all.'
She narrows her eyes at me, ready to debate. 'Really? Why?'
I can't believe I have to explain this. 'That's what we're put on earth to do. ~ Nicola Yoon

Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they're dead? ~ Nicola Yoon

My heart is so full of him. ~ Nicola Yoon

One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

It's not up to you to help other people fit you into a box. ~ Nicola Yoon

Charlie and Daniel think money and happiness are not related. They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to a body. To a mind. ~ Nicola Yoon

How impossibly untangleable is the tangle of what ifs. ~ Nicola Morgan

I'm thinking I shouldn't be here, but also that I don't want to be anywhere else. I feel nervous, excited, satisfied but ashamed. I'm thinking I don't know why the pull I feel towards you is so intense, and I'm thinking I don't have the strength to keep fighting it any longer. ~ Nicola Haken

Anna Campbell and I have already done a history tour of parts of the U.K., and it would be fun to invite my fellow Word Wench Cara Elliott along, too! ~ Nicola Cornick

love is not love if it's not requited, right? ~ Nicola Yoon

Who are we as individuals to judge the masses?

--used recently in a debate ~ Nicola Black

A fairytale princess then. Which one are you?Cinderella? Will you turn into a pumpkin if you leave the house? Or Rapunzel? Your hair's pretty long. Just let it down and I'll climp up and rescue you ~ Nicola Yoon

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it. ~ Nicola Yoon

In my head I know I've been in love before, but it doesn't feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once. ~ Nicola Yoon

I have friends, and being with them is enough for me. I don't need to do something crazy. ~ Nicola Peltz

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms. ~ Tariq Ramadan

I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but ... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

I get a kind of déjà vu, but instead of feeling like I'm repeating something in the past, it feels like I'm experiencing something that will happen in my future. ~ Nicola Yoon

You can't just make people fall in love, right? Love is way more complicated than that. It's not just a matter of choosing a couple of people and making them ask each other some questions, and then love blossoms. The moon and the stars are involved. I'm certain of it. ~ Nicola Yoon

Could my proud loneliness be merely an illusion? ~ Nicola Lecca

Couples stray," said Edgar. "Part of the breaking-in process."
"Not breaking in, breaking." Nicola differed sharply. "You can glue people together again. But then your relationship's like any other repaired object, with cracks, blobs of epoxy, a little askew. It's never the same. I can see you haven't a notion what I'm on about, so you'll have to take my word for it."
"Christ, you're a babe in the woods." Edgar stopped slicing tomatoes. "You got it ass-backward. A marriage perched like porcelain on the mantelpiece is doomed. Sooner or later grown-ups treat each other like shit. You gotta be able to kick the thing around, less like china than an old shoe - bam, under the bed, or walk it through some puddles. No love's gonna last it if can't take abuse. ~ Lionel Shriver

My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd answer whichever took my fancy. ~ Nicola Griffith

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in. ~ Nicola Yoon

We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about. ~ Nicola Yoon

The highest thing you can do is the thing God put you on this earth to do. ~ Nicola Yoon

Save me from the nice and sincere boys who feel things too deeply. ~ Nicola Yoon

I think Scotland will become an independent country. I've always believed that. It means that if I'm right on that, there has to be another referendum at some stage. But the timing and circumstances of that will require careful judgment. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

It seems like such a long time ago when I thought the world of him. He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite. But he's no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.

And I'm not a satellite. I'm space junk, hurtling as far as I can away from him. ~ Nicola Yoon

You can't persuade someone to love you. ~ Nicola Yoon

Love can kill you and I'd rather be alive than out there living. ~ Nicola Yoon

I think the first decision I took when I became a government minister was to reverse the planned closure of Monklands Accident and Emergency. It's an issue close to my heart. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.' ~ Nicola Sturgeon

This is the life you're living. It's not temporary and it's not pretend and there's no do-over. ~ Nicola Yoon

You know, you're very strong" Nicola said.
"Thank you."
"That's no compliment. It's your weakness. If you weren't so strong you wouldn't have to take it and so you wouldn't. ~ Andrew Kaufman

We can have lunch at Brown and Muffs ~ Nicola Thorne

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

We're not meant to be, Daniel. I'm an undocumented immigrant. I'm being deported. Today is my last day in America. Tomorrow I'll be gone. ~ Nicola Yoon

What do you want?" I repeated, and there was no huskiness there now. All demand. A suspended moment, then he suddenly leaned forward again, practically over the entire table and into my lap, sucking me into all that green. "I want to get you away from that bastard," he announced on a growl. "Out of his life. Out of his bed." Pause. "And into mine. ~ Nicola Claire

Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

What if I told you I could get you to fall in love with me scientifically?"
"I would scoff," I say. "A Lot ~ Nicola Yoon

Nothing is until it is and until then everything is possible. ~ Nicola Morgan

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

There can be no greater privilege in life than to be chosen to lead your country. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

I'm not the Princess, I'm the Dragon. I will roast you and eat you whole ~ Nicola Noble

An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

I'm the one who ran this whole mess into the jellyfish field. ~ Nicola Cameron

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can't achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

From the deepest silence between us arose uncertain, utterly vague and, as it were, whispered varieties on the theme 'smile'. ~ Nicola Lecca

There's just this stage in a guy's life where they need to be free and have fun and just be independent and enjoy their life. ~ Nicola Peltz

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die. ~ Nicola Yoon

as•ymp•tote (ˈasəm(p)ˌtōt) n. pl. -s. 1. A wish that continually approaches but never achieves fulfillment. [2015, Whittier] ~ Nicola Yoon

Just because it's the first time doesn't make it less real, does it? Even the universe has a beginning. ~ Nicola Yoon

The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor. ~ Nicola Horlick

Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished. ~ Nicola Tesla

Fate has always been the realm of the gods, though even the gods are subject to it.
In ancient Greek mythology, the Three Sisters of Fate spin out a person's destiny within three nights of their birth. Imagine your newborn child in his nursery. It's dark and soft and warm, somewhere between two and four a.m., one of those hours that belong exclusively to the newly born or the dying.
The first sister - Clotho - appears next to you. She's a maiden, young and smooth. In her hands she holds a spindle, and on it she spins the thrads of your child's life.
Next to her is Lachesis, older and more matronly than her sister. In her hands, she holds the rod used to mesure the thread of life. The length and destiny of your child's life is in her hands.
Finally we have Atropos - old, haggardly. Inevitable. In her hands she holds the terrible shears she'll use to cut the thread of your child's life. She determines the time and manner of his or her death.
Imagine the awesome and awful sight of these three sisters pressed together, presiding over his crib, dermining his future.
In modern times, the sisters have largely disappeared from the collective consiousness, but the idea of Fate hasn't. Why do we still believe? Does itmake tragedy more bearable to believe that we ourselves had no hand in it, that we couldn't have prevented it? It was always ever thus.
Things happen for a reason, says Natasha's mother. What she means is Fate has a Reason and, though yo ~ Nicola Yoon

romise yourself that whatever you know,

whatever you feel, whatever you see and whatever you

believe in, they're all yours and you are responsible for

whatever they do to you. You're the only master of your

journey. ~ Nicola An

Teenagers are the same all over. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. ~ Nicola Yoon

If something can be proven to work, we should try it ... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it's impossible to tell the difference. ~ Nicola Yoon

Everything's different and the same. I'm still Maddy. Olly's still Olly. But we're both more somehow. I know him in a new way. And I feel known, too. ~ Nicola Yoon

Our history is too compressed. We're trying to fit a lifetime into a day. ~ Nicola Yoon

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.

But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange. ~ Nicola Yoon

I want young people to be able to buy into what I design. When I was young, I wanted to buy designer brands even if all I could afford was the cheapest wallet, the cheapest pen, the cheapest T-shirt because I wanted to be a part of it. ~ Nicola Formichetti

Observable Fact: People aren't logical. ~ Nicola Yoon

Sorry I'm not here to chat, but tell me something fabulous anyway. ~ Nicola Kraus

The smile he gives me is worth living for. ~ Nicola Yoon

Q: Will I encounter turbulence?
A: Yes. Into all lives a little turbulence must fall. ~ Nicola Yoon

Maybe it's better to end things this way. Better to have a tragic and sudden end than to have a long, drawn-out one where we realize that we're just too different, and that love alone is not enough to bind us. I think all these things. I believe none of them. ~ Nicola Yoon

The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all. ~ Nicola Formichetti

I want to write about grown-up things. ~ Nicola Griffith

Desperation translates into every language. ~ Nicola Yoon

Stars are important," I say, laughing.

"Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two. ~ Nicola Yoon

He's also a dick,' said Achilleus to a scattering of laughter. Maxie saw that even Nicola was trying to hide a smile. ~ Charlie Higson

Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that, they can be a compass. ~ Nicola Yoon

When Natasha thinks about love, this is what she thinks: nothing lasts forever. Like hydrogen-7 or lithium-5 or boron-7, love has an infinitesimally small half-life that decays to nothing. And when its gone, its like it was never there at all. ~ Nicola Yoon

What colour are your eyes?
Olly (O): blue
Madeline (M): Be more specific please
O: jesus. girls. ocean blue
M: Atlantic or Pacific
O: atlantic. What colour are yours?
M: Chocolate brown.
O: More specific please
M: 75% cacao butter, dark chocolate brown
O: hehe. nice ~ Nicola Yoon

I have said repeatedly I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than the other parties. Because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services, and in lifting people out of poverty. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

For my mom and dad, who taught me about dreams and how to catch them ~ Nicola Yoon

I hit someone."

"Yes." I stopped four feet away.

She shook her hand at her side, lifted it, looked at it. "I hit him. He came down the stairs and I hit him. I really hit him. I've spent years wondering if I could, wondering what I'd do if it happened to me, if I'd been the one in front of that theatre...." She looked at her hand again, fascinated. "I hit him, and he ran away."

The realization of what she had done, the exhilaration of her own strength rushed into her, like champagne rushing to fill lead crystal. She shimmered with it, she fizzed. I wanted to lift her in both hands, drink her down, drain her, feel the foam inside me, curling around heart, lungs, stomach.

I stepped closer. She lifted her chin. Closer still.

"Wolf eyes," she whispered, and I could feel her breath on my throat, "so pale and hungry. ~ Nicola Griffith

the norebang we could pretend, but not out here. It's one of the things I like most about New York City. It deflects any attempts you make ~ Nicola Yoon

If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer. ~ Nicola Sturgeon