David D.

“En pleine chaleur du mois de décembre, il aimait décorer son minuscule sapin en papier mâché de beaucoup de coton ouaté, pour qu'il ressemblât aux sapins de son pays imaginaire.”
― Sergio Kokis, Amerika

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble