Quotes About Grenouille

#1. For Grenouille, this simplicity seemed a deliverance.

Patrick Suskind

#2. So spoke Grenouille the Great and, while the peasantry of scent danced and celebrated beneath him, he glided with wide-stretched wings down from his golden clouds, across the nocturnal fields of his soul, and home to his heart.

Patrick Suskind

#3. Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings.

Patrick Suskind

#4. Grenouille's mother, however, perceived the odor neither of the fish nor of the corpses, for her sense of smell had been utterly dulled, besides which her belly hurt, and the pain deadened all susceptibility of sensate impressions.

Patrick Suskind

#5. Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

Ann Landers

#6. I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there.

Ben Whishaw

#7. And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.

Patrick Suskind

#8. It is life, which goes on, while death is just an incident.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#9. A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

Peter Thiel

#10. Good. I'm starving.

Suzanne Collins

#11. Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred percent.

Sten Nadolny

#12. Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the safest slavery, to peace bought with ignorance, cowardice, and submission?

CrimethInc.

#13. Darren Levine has my unqualified support and gratitude for his
contributions to Krav Maga.

Imi Lichtenfeld

#14. They'd laughed when he flunked out of West Point. They'd laughed

Rick Riordan

#15. When You Weren't Looking The child became a woman, though she wasn't ready to. Don't ask how or why. Those questions are not important ones. Can't you see you didn't care enough to notice?

Ellen Hopkins