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“Quand j'arrive à la gare de l'Est, j'espère toujours secrètement qu'il y aura quelqu'un pour m'attendre. C'est con. J'ai beau savoir que ma mère est encore au boulot à cette heure-là et que Marc est pas du genre à traverser la banlieue pour porter mon sac, j'ai toujours cet espoir débile. [...] Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part... C'est quand même pas compliqué.”
― I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
― I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
“No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“I was very fond of you, but now I’m so, so tired. I’m not happy to go, but one needn't be happy to make another start.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“She burned too bright for this world.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
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