Lalo

“Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary--and terrible elegant. ”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never.
Yes, that's is, an always within a never.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog