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“J’ai passé ma vie entière à être neutre, éducation oblige, et, s’il y a bien une leçon que j’ai retenue, c’est que « neutralité est une jolie façon de dire « lâcheté ».”
― Christelle Dabos, La Mémoire de Babel

“Because I've never made such an effort not to be hated by someone”
― Christelle Dabos, Les Disparus du Clairdelune

“She kissed his scars, first the one cutting through his eyebrow, then the one cutting into his cheek, and finally the one cutting across his temple. With each contact, Thorn's eyes widened. His muscles, conversely, tightened.
"Fifty-six." He cleared his throat to make his voice less hoarse. Ophelia had never seen him so intimidated, despite his efforts not to show it.
"Thats the number of my scars."
She closed and then reopened her eyes. She felt it again, even more violently, this urgent call from inside her. "Show them to me.”
― Christelle Dabos, La Mémoire de Babel

“Indeed, one never loves someone more than when one knows the least about them.”
― Christelle Dabos , A Winter's Promise