Michèle Bernstein > Quotes

“Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state.”
― Michèle Bernstein, All the King's Horses [Semiotext(e) / Native Agents]

“I always wake up early in a strange bed. I looked at Bertrand, I wonder about him. There was a sort of easy grace in whatever he did, He didn't talk much. I watched this boy sleeping beside me. God, was he tall, and handsome. I was surprised, during the night, when he's told me he was only nineteen. I never would have imagined this kind of cool confidence could come so early to a person. But nineteen, after all, wasn't so far off. I remembered how stupid I was in my relations with other people then.”
― Michèle Bernstein, All the King's Horses [Semiotext(e) / Native Agents]

“He didn't know me well enough to imagine me any other way than how I was with him.”
― Michèle Bernstein, All the King's Horses [Semiotext(e) / Native Agents]

“As for vocabulary, two hundred words, it seemed, were sufficient, a dozen or two of which were filthy.”
― Michèle Bernstein, All the King's Horses [Semiotext(e) / Native Agents]