Manon

“Loin de chez eux, ils s'autorisaient à vivre d'autres facettes de leur personnalité, en jachère, s'affranchissaient des attentes de leurs proches qui les bornaient, du personnage prévisible qu'ils jouaient en société.”
― Alexandre Jardin, L'Île des gauchers

“It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I don't realize what something really means until it suddenly walks up and hits me between the eyes. It isn't enough to think, you have to feel [...]”
― Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven

“But all through the evening every time I looked at him I'd find his blue eyes fixed on me, with that naked look one can't help recognizing, and can't help remembering either that one has a certain power and occasionally men are vulnerable to it, and sometimes one ends up hurting them. But when it's happening it all seems worth it, and in the end too: however it ends I think, as far as I can tell so far, it still stays worth it.”
― Margaret Elphinstone, Hy Brasil: A novel