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“Elle les avait démasqués de loin, les petits ambitieux qui la trouvait banale vue de face, mais très jolie vue de dot.”
― Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

“To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch.
Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to touch. It moves lungs and throat and tongue and lips, it vibrates the air as it wings its way to the listener. The tongue grows dry, saliva spatters, the lips crack. When she found that physical process too much to bear, she became paradoxically more verbose.”
― Han Kang, Greek Lessons

“If you know you’re good, an opponent is a temporary roadblock, something to be taken apart and moved out of your way.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“Le pays tout entier était saisi d'une fureur commémorative en faveur des morts, proportionnelle à sa répulsion vis-à-vis des survivants.”
― Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut