Anna Gavalda Quotes

#1. I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.

Debra Winger

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

Anna Gavalda

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

Anna Gavalda

#4. Then the memory of the Darkling's kiss blew through me and rattled my concentration, scattering my thoughts like leaves and making my heart swoop and dive like a bird borne aloft by uncertain currents.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.

Idries Shah

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

Anna Gavalda

#7. 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.

Anna Gavalda

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

Anna Gavalda

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

Anna Gavalda

#10. The most important person of your life is YOU.

Burbuqe Raufi

#11. Thus, the critical dimension in understanding whether a marriage will work or not, becomes the extent to which the male can accept the influence of the woman he loves and become socialized in emotional communication.

John M. Gottman

#12. It's very simple why kids are crazy about dinosaurs - dinosaurs are nature's Special Effects. They are the only real dragons. Kids love dragons. It's not just being weirdly shaped and being able to eat Buicks. It's that they are real.

Robert T. Bakker

#13. I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content.

George Eliot

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

She put her notebook on his head.

Anna Gavalda

#15. Today stretches ahead of you waiting to be shaped. You are the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to you.

Steve Maraboli

#16. I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there'd be no rest, there'd be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.

Derek Walcott

#17. For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

Laura Prepon

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

Anna Gavalda

#19. Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

Samuel P. Huntington

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

Anna Gavalda

#21. I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

Aaron Peirsol

#22. 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.

Anna Gavalda

#23. Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Anna Gavalda

#25. One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#26. 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.

Anna Gavalda