Marina Mander > Quotes

“I don't understand old people's obsession with touching children. They should keep at least as far away as the years separating us.”
― Marina Mander, The First True Lie

“I’d like to piss on the heads of the parents, on the last line of the progress report, and blot out the comments from those people who can’t judge me because they don’t really know me... I’d like to piss on the lives of strangers who think they know everything and don’t know anything, and on my own life in which I will perhaps never see Paris.”
― Marina Mander

“But being an orphan, that's really a nasty business, like you're missing something and everyone sees only the part that's not there. You're not what you are - you're what you're missing. Like when someone has a glass eye. You look into the eye that doesn't see, not into the healthy one that's looking at you with all it's got.”
― Marina Mander, The First True Lie