Top 32 Perdu Quotes
#1. Perdu reflected that is was a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people.
Nina George
#2. Perdu cleared his throat and announced to the empty car: "Her words were so natural. Manon showed her feelings, always. She loved the tango. She drank from life as if it were champagne and faced it in the same spirit: she knew that life is special.
Nina George
#3. A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.
Rebecca West
#4. Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.
Wallace Stevens
#5. Perdu wanted Anna to feel that she was in a nest. He wanted her to sense the boundless possibilities offered by books. They would always be enough. They would never stop loving their readers. They were a fixed point in an otherwise unpredictable world. In life. In love. After death.
Nina George
#6. Perdu and Cuneo gaped at creatures that seemed to have sprung from Middle Earth or Winterfell. Such is the power of books.
Nina George
#7. Whenever Monsieur Perdu looked at a book, he did not see it purely in terms of a story, retail price and an essential balm for the soul; he saw freedom on wings of paper.
Nina George
#8. You have to dance the things you cannot explain," Perdu said under his breath.
"And you have to write the things you cannot express," the old novelist thundered.
Nina George
#9. Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
Jean Anouilh
#10. What are we doing? Are we talking? Are we having fun? Are we building, destroying, remembering, or forgetting love?
Antonia Perdu
#11. Turn bad thoughts into concrete so you can build a strong foundation.
Antonia Perdu
#12. Soulcial Shit. [Fertilizer]
you climbed under the skin I'm trying to escape.
Antonia Perdu
#13. Merry a mind is
of a weeping willow
roots raising concrete
be in
fit out
all abstract.
Antonia Perdu
#14. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust
#15. I jumped into a crowd full of "u"s they turned into underscores. Hit the pavement hard." visualization words
Antonia Perdu
#17. We have lift off of the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-3) communication satellite at 4:44 a.m
Antonia Perdu
#18. Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds.
Antonia Perdu
#19. I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences.
Antonia Perdu
#20. If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal.
Antonia Perdu
#21. We were bullied, broken, built up, bronzed and polished.
We grew dull, dusty, doubtful, dark, and forgetful.
Yet we still know that we can love deeply.
Antonia Perdu
#22. He whom is without typos, throw the first stone.
Antonia Perdu
#23. Her words were like the hammer. My stance was of a nail. I didn't need those callous words on my once strong shell. Hammered. Hammered. Words on my shoulder blades. All of my great feelings concave.
Antonia Perdu
#24. The enigma.
The flowers that bloom in the dark shine the brightest.
We bloom from the moonlight.
Antonia Perdu
#25. There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.
Dante Alighieri
#26. I am at times prisoner to the darkness. Light will find a way in I am always assured. The sun has not died. The moon has not died. I live.
Antonia Perdu
#27. It is always yesterday, tomorrow, and 3 years ago today. It is always your birthday. It is always the future, the present, and the past. It is always eternity that will last.
Antonia Perdu Millie Farquoix
#28. Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day.
Antonia Perdu
#29. Who goes to the beach without trying to touch the water? The one who cannot see the water, but if the blind wishes to FEEL the water, he shall not retreat, just as long as he holds hands with FAITH.
Antonia Perdu
#30. Dear Optimism, nice to see you. I've got an extra room, how about you stay for a while.
Antonia Perdu
#32. May inspiration travel and always return 360 degrees.
Antonia Perdu
