Quotes About Gavalda

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

She put her notebook on his head.

Anna Gavalda

#2. 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

#3. Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Aristotle.

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

Anna Gavalda

#5. 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

#6. Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Anna Gavalda

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

Anna Gavalda

#9. Diplomacy was not one of Susan's character flaws.

Annie Nicholas

#10. He smiled at me. "Have a good time."
"Thank you." The music was definitely working, I thought as I started to shut the door.
"Don't get laid," he added.

Jeri Smith-Ready

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

Anna Gavalda

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Anna Gavalda

#15. Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy
as long as you know how you should always destroy
the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend
who never stands up for you when you're forced to bend

Munia Khan

#16. She did, however, make herself a promise. There were likely no spiders in the other girls' beds that evening, but Jocelyn resolved to remedy that as soon as possible.

Heidi Schulz

#17. Sometimes you succeed ... and other times you learn.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Anna Gavalda

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

Anna Gavalda