Violette Leduc Quotes

#1. Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.

Joyce Meyer

#2. To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Violette Leduc

#3. Beloved mother and wife. Without you, all the light is gone.

Ali Standish

#4. There's no sustenance in the past.

Violette Leduc

#5. As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future.

Douglas Alexander

#6. I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

Violette Leduc

#7. Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

Sonia Rykiel

#8. At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers ... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came.

Violette Leduc

#9. We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

Violette Leduc

#10. Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat. Suck my blood out of the hollow of my elbow where you are lying, where you are keeping warm. It's just as you please, it will always be just as you please from now on.

Violette Leduc

#11. Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Stefan Molyneux

#12. I was afraid of having to present my big nose to strangers.

Violette Leduc

#13. I breathed in for a moment, letting his scent of leather and cigarettes and boy calm my ragged breathing.

Caitlin Kittredge

#14. I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

Violette Leduc

#15. To write is to inform against others.

Violette Leduc

#16. I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

Violette Leduc

#17. My mother never took my hand.

Violette Leduc

#18. Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

Violette Leduc