“All these years, they’ve been like two little plants sharing the same plot of soil, growing around one another, contorting to make room, taking certain unlikely positions.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“No, you are not the nameless master of the world, the one on whom history had lost its hold, the one who no longer felt the rain falling, who did not see the approach of night. You are no longer the inaccessible, the limpid, the transparent one. You are afraid, you are waiting. You are waiting, on Place Clichy, for the rain to stop falling.”
― Un homme qui dort
― Un homme qui dort
“How do you know when a story is done?"
"My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go.”
― Winter in Sokcho
"My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go.”
― Winter in Sokcho
“Of course, if I chose to be an optimist, there was always the possibility that, if our two parallels continued to infinity, the moment would come when they would touch.”
― Cosmicomics
― Cosmicomics
“You stopped speaking and only silence replied. But those words, those thousands, those millions of words that dried up in your throat, the inconsequential chit-chat, the cries of joy, the words of love, the silly laughter, just when will you find them again?
Now you live in dread of silence. But are you not the most silent of all?”
― Un homme qui dort
Now you live in dread of silence. But are you not the most silent of all?”
― Un homme qui dort
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