“I had in my hand the warm hand of an unknown young man who meant nothing to me and it made me want to laugh.”
― Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile
― Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile
“You prefer people whom you are treating badly to be cheerful. It's less disturbing.”
― Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile
― Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile
“Now he himself was abandoning me and rendering me defenceless. I looked at him and thought: ‘You don’t love me as you used to. You are betraying me,’ and I tried to make him understand this without actually speaking.”
― Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile
― Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile
“It is always through the bodies of other people that you discover your own body, the length of it and the smell of it, distrustfully at first, and then with recognition.”
― Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile
― Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile
“And yet it's probably this moment that I will have loved the most, the one when I accepted the fact that life is just as it appears to me now, quietly heart-breaking.”
― Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile
― Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile
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