Annie Ernaux Quotes

#1. A 'good man' is a male creature that survives the endless episodes that its woman spends complaining about women who she hates, and, women who hate her.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#2. Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?

Annie Ernaux

#3. Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.

Annie Ernaux

#4. She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.

Annie Ernaux

#5. The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Yann Martel

#6. Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm.

Siri Hustvedt

#7. If I'd had a friend next to me, I would have squeezed her arm and said, Can you believe this? - but kitsch wasn't kitsch if you were alone.

Emma Straub

#8. The road will be one long, I'm sure at that. So far the real friends are few, but few more challanges and few of them will gone also, won't they?

Deyth Banger

#9. That, he said as he kissed her nose.Is a shame.You should be told you're beautiful every day.Because every day it's true, and every time i see you ,you grow in your beauty.Just because people don't say the words, doesn't mean its any less true,Kace.

Rachel Van Dyken

#10. And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.

Gayle Forman

#11. Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Ivo Andric

#12. He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls like one long stick of butter as he moved closer toward me.

Emme Rollins

#13. I always carry a tinted moisturiser with SPF sunscreen. A good lip balm is a must - I can't go past Lucas's Papaw Cream.

Jessica Hart

#14. He is dead, right?"
"Graveyard dead," Bran admitted without a hint of remorse.
"Oh, forgive us," Rick murmured, crossing himself.
"Forgiveness is between him and God," Bran insisted. "It was my job to arrange the meeting."
"Man on Fire," Maddy blurted.

Julie Ann Walker

#15. Economics has become as riveting as politics.

Tina Brown

#16. When someone behaves poorly, it's always because they've forgotten how powerful they really are, how beautiful life is, and how much they're loved. Always.

Mike Dooley