Anna Gavalda Quotes

#1. He went down a step and sat with his back against his sweetheart's legs.

She put her notebook on his head.

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#2. I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test.

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#3. Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.

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#4. At the end of the afternoon she tore herself away from the story to go and buy some tobacco. This would be tricky on a holiday, but never mind, it was mainly a pretext so the story could settle and she'd have the pleasure of meeting up with her new friend again a bit later on.

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#5. It wouldn't take much for the sorrow she felt at the sorrow she caused to drown her again

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#6. He sounded good, didn't he?" added Franck.
"He only stuttered eight times."
"That's what I mean.

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#7. How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?

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#8. Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

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#9. Our certainties never really hold water. One day you feel like dying and the next you realize all you had to do was go down a few stairs to find the light switch so you could see things a bit more clearly.

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#10. She's pretty, but in her face you can see all the things she's given up on in life.

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#11. What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.

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#12. But you're not as stupid as they say!... Or are you?

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