Adeline Dieudonné > Quotes

“Cette bête m'interdisait de pleurer. Elle a poussé un long rugissement qui a dépecé les ténèbres. C'était fini. Je n'étais pas une proie. Ni un prédateur. J'étais moi et j'étais indestructible.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, La Vraie Vie

“They say that when you listen to Mozart, the silence that follows is still Mozart. But they say nothing about the silence that follows a gunshot.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, Real Life

“In the main, my mother’s function was to prepare the meals, which she did like an amoeba might, with neither creativity nor taste, but lots of mayonnaise.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, La Vraie Vie

“La vie est une grande soupe dans un mixer au milieu de laquelle il faut essayer de ne pas finir déchiqueté par les lames qui vous attirent vers le fond.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, La Vraie Vie

“C’était un homme immense, avec des épaules larges, une carrure d’équarrisseur. Des mains de géant. Des mains qui auraient pu décapiter un poussin comme on décapsule une bouteille de Coca.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, La Vraie Vie

“I played the older sister and whispered, “Stories exist to contain everything that frightens us. That way we can be sure those things won’t happen in real life.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, Real Life

“Ich stehe also auf Umweltschutz, was ist das nur für eine bescheuerte Erklärung?”
― Adeline Dieudonné, Bonobo moussaka

“everyone at the school was useless. The teachers, the pupils. The former were idiotically old and the latter would become so. A bit of acne, a little sexual intercourse, some further education, kids, work, and presto! They’ll be old and will have served no purpose.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, Real Life

“J’ai compris que j’avais réussi, quelque part dans le futur”
― Adeline Dieudonné, La Vraie Vie

“The classrooms were dotted with a few windows, as thin as arrow slits—so thin that a body couldn’t have slipped through. They were a beautiful metaphor for the institution’s educational system, a straitjacket that didn’t even try to give the illusion of freedom. I appreciated the irony of the thing, at least it had the merit of being consistent.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, Real Life

“I had a strong sense that it was better my father not be reminded that I liked the sciences. What I’d seen in his reaction the previous day suggested that I was treading on dangerous ground. His taste for annihilation was forcing me to develop myself in silence. On tiptoe.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, Real Life

“Sicer nisem vedela, ali je v življenju mogoče uspeti, niti kaj bi to lahko pomenilo. Toda vedela sem, da je življenje brez smeha, brez izbire in brez ljubezni zapravljeno.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, La Vraie Vie

“My mother lived in dread of my father. I think that’s pretty much all I can say about her, leaving aside her obsession with gardening and miniature goats. She was a thin woman, with long limp hair. I don’t know if she existed before meeting him. I imagine she did. She must have resembled a primitive life form—single-celled, vaguely translucent. An amoeba. Just ectoplasm, endoplasm, a nucleus, and a digestive vacuole. Years of contact with my father had gradually filled this scrap of nothing with fear.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, Real Life

“Ma puce. J’ai cru que mon cœur allait exploser. Ma puce. Mon père m’avait appelée « ma puce ». Ces deux petits mots ont tournoyé dans mes oreilles comme des lucioles, puis sont allés se faufiler au fond de ma poitrine. Leur lumière a brillé là pendant plusieurs jours.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, La Vraie Vie

“I loved my body. There was nothing narcissistic about this. Even if my body had been gross, I would have loved it just the same, like a traveling companion who never let me down, and whom I had to protect.”
― Adeline Dieudonné, Real Life