Nicola Barker Quotes

• Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.

  Nicola Barker

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Pain

  Nicola Barker (2012). “The Yips: A Novel”, p.115, Open Road Media

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• The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.

  Nicola Barker

  Bullets, Praying, Wailing

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