Livs

“You know, Nina, one thinks something. And then one’s wrong.”
― Valérie Perrin, Three

“Imagine you’ve been unable to move for years because your fist is clenched inside a container, and to manage to pull your hand out, to free yourself, you just need to let go of what you’re clutching in your clenched fist . . . You open up your hand, you lose what’s inside it, it falls to the bottom of the container, but you are free.”
― Valérie Perrin, Trois

“People are art,” he said. “It’s enough to just watch the people.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“She would say it was because childhood never leaves us. We seal the room up and cover it in sheetrock. We dry and sand and paint, but the pocket of history remains, and sooner or later someone always winds up tapping on the wall, commenting on the way it sounds strangely hollow in there, and then the whole thing comes tumbling down.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler