27 quotes
From one moment to another one can lose heart.
Honey Moon (1990)
When you are young , you neglect certain details that might become precious later.
After the Circus (1992)
Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another?
The Search Warrant (2000)
There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
Honey Moon (1990)
Rue Froidevaux seemed to go on forever, as if the distances stretched to infinity.
Suspended Sentences (1993)
A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
Out Of The Dark (1995)
Writing is a strange and solitary activity.
I've never been good at saying no.
After the Circus (1992)
Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.
The Search Warrant (2000)
The sign had been put up out of suspicion and a guilty conscience: “Military zone. Filming or photography prohibited".
The Search Warrant (2000)
All that would remain of me would be the raincoat I’d been wearing, rolled on a bench.
Suspended Sentences (1993)
But topographical details have a strange effect on me : instead of clarifying and sharpening images from past , they give me a harrowing sensation of emptiness and severed relationships.
After the Circus (1992)
This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
The Search Warrant (2000)
You should never marry a lot younger than you...never....it never works ...there is not a single case of its working..
Missing Person (1978)
Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.
Suspended Sentences (1993)
Certain coincidences risk passing unnoticed; certain people have appeared in our lives on several occasions without our realizing it.
Suspended Sentences (1993)
That is her secret. A poor and precious secret which not even the executioners the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, history, time – everything that corrupts and destroys you- have been able to take away from her.
The Search Warrant (2000)
And that these directories and yearbooks constituted the most valuable and moving library you could imagine, as their pages listed people, things, vanished worlds , to which they alone bore witness.
Missing Person (1978)
Children are liable to expect more from life than their parents, and faced with adversity their reaction is more violent. They go farther, much farther than their parents, and, thereafter, their parents are unable to protect them.
The Search Warrant (2000)