Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Here is a place to share your quotes from "French Reads".

This quote is neither from my French read or page 46, but it was too good not to share. It is from Uther.

"I know and understand that there are many times when every woman will nod judiciously and agree with a man until he has passed from her sight, after which she will proceed to do what she intended to do before he came along."

Amen, sister! :)

Haha, good quote Lynne! So true..

I love this quote!

I do this every day,,, it takes dicipline. Sometimes when I pray I say "and God don't let me miss an oppotunity to shutup."
I agree with Lynne's lovely quote.

So I get to post the first actual French quote. From Page 46 of Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell:

"It was like leaving his soul to see his paintings stacked with so many others and wheeled away to echoing rooms. The judges will stare at them for a few minutes, he thought, and then pass on to other work. He could see the committee in their dark coats and hats. everyone knew how it was in there when they chose among twenty thousand works of art: a minute's glance, an off-the-cuff decision. Giving a shake of the head for a negative vote, then passing on to the next. A mark noted on a scrap of paper to be counted later.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

Grenouille felt his heart pounding, and he knew that it was not the exertion that had set it pounding, but rather his excited helplessness in the present of this scent. He tried to recall something comparable, but had to discard all comparisons.

I ran across this quote in Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell
"Late November, as dingy as the skirts of a prostitute."

I don't know why, but I just fell in love with the way it sounds.

From The Little Prince:

"Oh, where I live," said the little prince, "is not very interesting. It's so small. I have three volcanoes, two active and one extinct. But you never know."

From The Immoralist:

"I remember the last night. The moon was nearly full; through my wide-open window, its bright light fell into my room. Marceline was asleep, I think. I was in bed, but could not sleep. I felt I was burning with a kind of happy fever, which was nothing but life itself. I stood up, soaked my hands and face in water, then, pushing open the glass door, stepped outside."

From Perfume: The Story of a Murderer:

"He had found the compass for his future life. And like all gifted abominations ... Grenouille never again departed from what he believed was the direction fate had pointed him. It was clear to him now why he had clung to life so tenaciously, so savagely. He must become a creator of scents. And not just an average one. But, rather, the greatest perfumer of all time."

Darkly intriguing!

Cathy wrote: "From Perfume: The Story of a Murderer:

"He had found the compass for his future life. And like all gifted abominations ... Grenouille never again departed from what he believed was th..."

Good quote! I liked that book. I love the concept of beauty in/emerging from "darkness". If you liked Perfume, you should check out Amadeus: A Play or Equus by Peter Shaffer. Those two plays deal with similar themes, I think (although they don't count towards French Reads, who knows.. maybe next month will be drama?!)

Perfume is one of the books on my list. I hope I get to it soon!

Around the World in Eighty Days

Fix did not persist, and understood that he would have to be resigned to waiting for his warrant. But he resolved not to lose sight of his mysterious rouge whilst he remained in Bombay. He did not doubt the Philius Fogg would stop there - and as we know, it was also Passepartout's conviction - which would give the warrant of arrest the time to arrive.