Nicole Fosse Quotes

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

There's a dark side to everything.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.