Sonja

“We said nothing about all this outside, one of the first things we'd learned was to keep quiet about the ruling principle of our life, poverty. And then about everything else. Our first confidants, though the word seems excessive, are our lovers, the people we meet away from our various homes, first in the streets of Saigon and then on ocean liners and trains, and then all over the place.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“I think I'm beginning to see my life. I think I can already say, I have a vague desire to die.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“It's in this valour, human, absurd, that I see true grace.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover