“In books there are chapters to separate out the moments, to show that time is going by and things are changing, and sometimes the parts even have titles that are full of promise—'The Meeting', 'Hope', 'Downfall'—like paintings do. But in… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
“Those moments aren't ours any more. They're shut up in a box, buried at the back of a cupboard, out of reach. They're frozen… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
“You're lucky to have within your grasp something that everyone envies. You can't act as though that didn't exist, as though it wasn't part of you. Yes, writing is a weapon and that's all to the good. Your family created the writer you've become. They created a monster - forgive me - and the monster has found a way to… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share
“Yes, writing is a weapon, Delphine, a bloody weapon of mass destruction. Writing is even more powerful than anything you can imagine. Writing is… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
“I don't go after him. He's a funny sort of boy. I've known that from the start. Not just because he seems angry and… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
“But I can’t manage to grow up and change shape. I’m still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
“I thought there was nothing more worthwile or more respectable than directing the traffic, going from red to green and green to red in… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that we've got our lives… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over. — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
“Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share
“In fact, for a long time I believed that the word 'emotional' had something to do with the size of an individual's vocabulary. So it seemed to me that in order to live in society you had to arm yourself with words, not to be reticent about accumulating them, diversifying, grasping their tiniest nuances. The vocabulary thus acquired would through… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share
My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us. — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
