Delphine De Vigan Quotes

#1. Later, the body will assimilate the fear; it will enter the bloodstream, be diluted and become a constituent part of how it functions.

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#2. But I can't manage to grow up and change shape. I'm still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that everyone pretends to be unaware of, perhaps because I know that deep down we're all tiny.

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#3. Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

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#4. I wanted Sundays in wintry colours, the smell of soup drifting from the kitchen. I wanted our lives to be like other people's. I wanted everyone to have their place at the table, their time for the bathroom, their part in the domestic routine, for there be nothing to do by let time drift by.

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#5. Suddenly I'm happy there in the fuzziness of sleep, and maybe this is what happiness is - not a dream or a promise - just living for the moment.

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#6. I thought there was nothing more worthwile or more respectable than directing the traffic, going from red to green and green to red in order to protect people.

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#7. No prince, no success filled her dreams: only time spread out before her to spend as she chose, a time of contemplation which offered her refuge.

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#8. That's the problem - our lives have stopped and the world keeps going round.

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#9. Those moments aren't ours any more. They're shut up in a box, buried at the back of a cupboard, out of reach. They're frozen like on a postcard or a calendar. The colours will end up disappearing, fading. They're forbidden to our memories and our words.

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#10. I don't go after him. He's a funny sort of boy. I've known that from the start. Not just because he seems angry and contemptuous or the way he walks like a tough guy. Because of his smile - it's a child's smile.

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#11. You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

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#12. If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.

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#13. I thought that helping someone meant sharing everything, even the things you can't understand, even the darkest stuff.

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#14. I often regret the fact that you can't rub out words in mid-air like you can on paper, that there isn't a special pen that you can wave in front of you to remove the clumsy words before anyone can hear them.

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#15. And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that we've got our lives ahead of us, our whole lives.

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#16. But sometimes the night reveals the only truth that time passes and things will never be seen the same again.

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#17. My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.

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