Yannick Haenel

“At the entrance to the restaurant, laid out on a bed of ice, there were oysters that were making me hungry. Their shells sparkled, like little lights stuck on a cliff. Mother-of-pearl encourages sparkling. It is said that an oyster secretes a pearl from where it was hurt. And so the wound is desirable, it greets the zest of the lemon that, while I am writing these lines, is making my mouth water. I am going to drink at those lacy edges, I am going to suck down the pearl. Yes, a watering mouth, everything comes from that, the world exists only to create desire.”
― Yannick Haenel, Hold Fast Your Crown

“I wasn’t really impressed with society’s idea of literature. What does it know about it? Nothing. Everyone thinks they know what literature is, but no one knows anything.”
― Yannick Haenel, Hold Fast Your Crown