Timothée de Fombelle > Quotes

“Le bonheur est cette danse où l'on s'approche et l'on s'écarte sans se perdre. Il est même fait des larmes des longues séparations à condition que viennent les retrouvailles.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Le Livre de Perle

“[Toby] reflected that being cruel sometimes makes you rich and powerful, but it always makes you ugly.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Toby Alone

“There are some closed doors we’re so frightened of opening that we don’t see them any more. We’ve pushed furniture in front of them; we’ve jammed the lock. Children are the only ones who might crouch down on all fours to stare at the red glow coming from under the door, as they wonder what lies behind it. But Vango had always been afraid of the glow.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Vango: Between Sky And Earth

“Who could have predicted what would happen in the time it takes to boil an egg?”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Vango: Between Sky And Earth

“Little tree filled his lungs with the white airness of the night, as if he were going to fly.
The living voice of his parents. Elisha's eyes. These were reasons enough to set off on another adventure.
Reasons to be Toby Lolness again.”
― Timothee de Fombelle, Toby Alone

“Tous les chagrins sont méprisants, imprenables, perchés à des hauteurs que personne ne peux rejoindre. Peut-être a-t-on trop peur qu'une consolation efface ce qu'il reste des souvenirs.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Un prince sans royaume

“The shot has gone under my rib, Boulard my boy, so it must have been the shortest one who fired."
Even his final sigh was a police investigation.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Vango: Between Sky And Earth

“I had set off, going straight ahead, to escape a broken heart. I had been walking for three hours, wherever the forest took me.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Le Livre de Perle

“He was frightened for his country. Slowly and tragically it was drifting in the wrong direction. Something had to be done. Tiny gestures. Barely noticeable. A little resistance, some gentle friction, to break the fall.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Vango: Between Sky And Earth

“Le storie ci fanno cambiare. E certi incontri ci rovesciano sul dorso, come succede alle tartarughe. Ci costringono a lasciarci sopraffare”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Le Livre de Perle

“Perhaps it was because of his wife that Pippo the farmer dreamt of becoming a sailor. There are certain people on this earth who make you want to sail very far away, and above all for a very long time.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Vango: Between Sky And Earth

“La felicità è quella danza in cui ci si avvicina e ci si allontana, senza perdersi”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Le Livre de Perle

“Happiness is a dance where each step brings you closer together or farther apart, but you never lose sight of one another. You could even say that it's made from the tears of separations, safe in the knowledge that there will always be reunions.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Le Livre de Perle

“Perhaps it would be better if your whole life had the same transparency as in its final moments.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Toby and the Secrets of the Tree

“Music fears nobody. And it refuses to be caged. Finally,”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Toby and the Secrets of the Tree

“He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them, he learned everything he believed it was possible to learn.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Vango: Between Sky And Earth

“In an ideal world, we might have dreamed of a benevolent hand intervening so that one of them tarried a little longer while the other hurried up, and that they would have found themselves at precisely the same moment, in front of the black van with Drat That Rat! stamped across it. In an ideal world, there would have been music playing in the distance and a ray of sunshine would have lit up the pavement.
But, even in an ideal world, would it have been worth changing the course of these two lives, treating them like pawns to be pushed one square ahead or behind, just for us to enjoy a reunion scene played out in slow motion?
So Vango got into the van alone.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Vango: Between Sky And Earth

“Quel giorno, guardando Maia, Tobia capì che quando si piange qualcuno si piange anche per ciò che quel qualcuno non ci ha dato.

Maia piangeva la madre che non aveva mai avuto.

E a quel punto, ormai era certo, la madre ideale non avrebbe mai fatto parte della sua vita.

Per questo singhiozzava tanto.

Come se, fino alla fine, si mantenesse la speranza di un gesto o di una parola capace di riparare tutto. Come se la morte, infine, uccidesse quel gesto che non è mai stato fatto o quella parola che non è mai stata pronunciata.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Toby Alone

“Quando un bambino di sette anni, isolato e sempre solo, scopre che a meno di una giornata di cammino c’è un altro bambino della sua età, è capace di tutto per trovarlo. È la magia della calamita, che i bambini conoscono bene.
E anche gli innamorati.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Toby Alone

“Khi người ta sống trong nỗi sợ hãi, người ta sẽ rơi xuống từng bước một. Chính nỗi sợ làm ta rớt xuống.”
― Timothée de Fombelle

“The wounded beast I had been tracking was me.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Le Livre de Perle

“I wasn't the only one drifting between two worlds. Each of them had their own secrets, their own stories that nobody else believed. Was there a single being onboard who could honestly say they'd never fallen in love with a fairy or a banished prince? We were all the same. Stories create us.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Le Livre de Perle

“The world exploded when he passed by. Ashes were all he left behind.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Un prince sans royaume

“Tell your secret to a friend, but your friend also has a friend.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Un prince sans royaume

“In the bleak years that followed, legends abounded as to what had become of her. There was talk of a girl at the bottom of the sea, or hiding somewhere else to prepare her revenge. The people, oppressed by the king's madness, made her into their secret heroine. That is the way stories are born, when small mysteries meet dark times.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Le Livre de Perle

“sự chóng vánh làm nên sức mạnh của cuộc gặp gỡ”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Vango: Entre ciel et terre

“Cậu để lại trên mặt nước một cái vỏ sò nhỏ màu đỏ rực mà cậu nhặt được, rồi ra về. Mảnh sò trôi dần về phía Elisa. Cô bé cầm lên khi nó giạt vào những nếp gấp của chiếc váy bập bềnh trên mặt nước, tạo nên những mảnh lụa xanh trải rộng.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Toby Alone

“Elle aussi découvrait ce secret interdit aux fées, l'amour, cette force qui fait vivre. C'est-à-dire qui fait naître et qui fait mourir.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Le Livre de Perle

“Certaines forces sont pourtant plus puissantes que la magie. Un autre fil d'or restait attaché au centre de sa poitrine. Un fil dont il ne pourrait jamais se défaire. [...] Elle aussi découvrait ce secret interdit aux fées, l'amour, cette force qui fait vivre. C'est-à-dire qui fait naître et qui fait mourir.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Le Livre de Perle

“Ma quando si trovò a festeggiare il compimento del terzo giorno con un panino duro accompagnato da un piatto di muffa, e si rese conto che gli mancavano centodiciassette giorni da passare a quel modo, capì che non si vive soltanto di aria, acqua, calore, luce, cibo e consapevolezza del tempo.

Ma insomma, cos’aveva da lamentarsi? Cosa voleva ancora? Di cosa si vive, oltre che di tutte queste cose?

Si vive degli altri.

Questa fu la sua conclusione.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Toby Alone