Andrée Chedid Quotes

1920–2011

Andrée Chedid (Arabic: أندريه شديد) (born Andrée Saab Khoury, 20 March 1920 in Cairo, Egypt; died 6 February 2011 in Paris, France), was a French-language writer.

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The rays of the sun were already less blinding as they fell on the walls of the white house. In the distance an arm of the Nile stretched toward the suppleness of a shadow.

Le Sommeil délivré (1952)

It was nothing. Nothing but a muffled, distant noise. If it had not been for the events of the last few weeks, it would have gone unnoticed. Nobody would have dreamed it was a shot.

beginning of La Maison sans racines (1985)

His voice swelled until it swallowed everything else in the house (Chapter 2)

Le Sommeil délivré (1952)

When your fingers can give birth to creatures who are closer to life than the living will ever be, you are not alone. (Chapter 12)

Le Sommeil délivré (1952)

You should not carry nightmares along with you, nor cover a child's footsteps with shadows. (Part III, Chapter 6)

Le sixième jour (1960)

"The joyous tears of a fiancée are as sweet as honey!" (Chapter 4)

Le Sommeil délivré (1952)

Shouts clash like sticks knocking together. (Chapter 12)

Le Sommeil délivré (1952)

"How many monkeys' lives are worth the life of a child?" [she] wondered. She asked herself if God used this kind of measurement. (Part III, Chapter 1)

Le sixième jour (1960)

With [her] I rediscovered my life. My sadness dropped away like a dead skin. (Chapter 9)

Le Sommeil délivré (1952)

In his face was incarnated all the sadness in the world. His eyes did not seem to belong to him. (Chapter 6)

Le Sommeil délivré (1952)

I thought I was opening [her] eyes, but I was opening my own as well. (Chapter 9)

Le Sommeil délivré (1952)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Andrée Chedid (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.