No And Me Delphine De Vigan Quotes

#1. 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.

Delphine De Vigan

#2. The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.

Terry Gross

#3. The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

George Ayittey

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

Delphine De Vigan

#5. Her smile surfaced and my morning started to brighten up

Nimish Tanna

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

Delphine De Vigan

#7. 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.

Delphine De Vigan

#8. Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.

Ellen Hopkins

#9. 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.

Delphine De Vigan

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

Delphine De Vigan

#11. 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.

Delphine De Vigan

#12. 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.

Delphine De Vigan

#13. One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.

Marjorie Holmes

#14. 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.

Delphine De Vigan

#15. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Douglas Horton

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

Delphine De Vigan

#17. Author's Warning
If you're buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cusswords as well as tasteful depictions of cannibalism and people in their forties having sex. Don't blame me. I told you.

Christopher Moore

#18. 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.

Delphine De Vigan

#19. If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

Maya Angelou

#20. No-one has the right to terminate a person's life with a gun, a knife, or a makutu (spell).

Theresa Sjoquist

#21. 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.

Delphine De Vigan

#22. 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.

Delphine De Vigan

#23. 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.

Delphine De Vigan

#24. Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

Dwight L. Moody

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

Delphine De Vigan

#26. 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.

Delphine De Vigan

#27. Don't mistake kindness for weakness

Al Capone

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

Delphine De Vigan