Mathilde Quotes

#1. Oh, Lotto, Mathilde thought with loving despair. Like most deadly attractive people, he had a hollow at the center of him. What people loved most about her husband was how mellifluous their own voices sounded when they echoed back. Mathilde

Lauren Groff

#2. Rachel's face was still looking at Mathilde from the dark when she went back upstairs. The marital suite, the bed obscene in its empty enormity. In her absence, the sheets had been changed. When she climbed in again, they were cool and smelled like lavender and brushed her skin like accusations.

Lauren Groff

#3. Ghost Helper: from around 6 p.m. most evenings, and weekends from 11 a.m. I will do all I can to help free your soul. x Mathilde x I often have to organise a queue before I get started to help them all. So many!

L.P. Donnelli

#4. Perhaps, Mathilde thought, watching flakes fall into dark and the empty street, I've been wrong. Perhaps the mother had watched her daughter fail and fail and didn't move to help out of something unfathomable, something Mathilde struggled to understand, a thing that was like an immense kind of love.

Lauren Groff

#5. My sister Mathilde is an actress, but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She's famous just in France. She's very commercial and does big comedies. So, acting was part of my family, and that's how I was raised.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#6. What was this mania for universal adoration? Mathilde knew herself unworthy of the love of a single soul, and he wanted the love of everyone.

Lauren Groff

#7. You say that as if he's sick," Mathilde said. "He is. Great American Artistitis,

Lauren Groff

#8. And besides, his Cyn was coming for him. Dear Mathilde was about to learn just how lethal one human female could be.

D.B. Reynolds

#9. Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

Lauren Groff

#10. Mathilde let him eat two doughnuts, and his eyes filled with tears because they were the most amazing doughnuts in the history of glazed doughnuts, food of the gods. He was full of joy.

Lauren Groff

#11. He'd woken up to the absence of Mathilde in the bed, grief in the coolness where her heat should have been.

Lauren Groff

#12. I live monastically, Mathilde said, meaning, of course, more.

Lauren Groff

#13. [Complex, our Mathilde; she can bear contradictions.]

Lauren Groff

#14. We have all had stupid youths,' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.

Lauren Groff

#15. But please, Mathilde knew lions. The male lolled beautifully, lazy in the sun. The female, less lovely by miles, was the one who brought back the kill.

Lauren Groff

#16. You can't hate me, Mathilde, when I say no. This is my work.

Lauren Groff

#17. I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

Stendhal

#18. Great swaths of her life were white space to her husband. What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did. Still, there are untruths made of words and untruths made of silences, and Mathilde had only ever lied to Lotto in what she never said.

Lauren Groff

#19. and Mathilde still had

Donna Tartt

#20. Mathilde had always been a fist, in truth. Only with Lotto had she been an open hand.

Lauren Groff

#21. Oh. That's because I've stopped smiling," Mathilde said. "For so many years, I never let anyone see me without smiling. I don't know why I didn't stop earlier. It's enormously relaxing.

Lauren Groff

#22. Mathilde was there in the dawn, this perfect girl as if made to his specifications. [A different life, had Lotto listened to the terror: no glory, no plays; peace, ease, and money. No glamour; children. Which life was better? Not for us to say.]

Lauren Groff

#23. The house echoed, empty. Mathilde had been liberated. She had nothing to worry about now.

Lauren Groff

#24. Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.

Mathilde Blind

#25. War rages on the teeming earth;
The hot and sanguinary fight
Begins with each new creature's birth:
A dreadful war where might is right;
Where still the strongest slay and win,
Where weakness is the only sin.

Mathilde Blind

#26. Life grows lovely where you are.

Mathilde Blind

#27. If you miss one class, you know it; if you miss two classes, your teacher knows it, and if you miss three classes, the audience knows it

Mathilde Kschessinska

#28. The key for me is keeping it simple, with an emphasis on the best skincare rather than makeup.

Mathilde Thomas

#29. The April rain, the April rain,
Comes slanting down in fitful showers,
Then from the furrow shoots the grain,
And banks are fledged with nestling flowers;
And in grey shawl and woodland bowers
The cuckoo through the April rain
Calls once again.

Mathilde Blind

#30. I believe that God in every human-being, is expressing a divine idea, and a different in each.

Mathilde Fibiger