“thousands of lungs will swell as one across the way, thousands of livers will be soaked with beer, thousands of kidneys will, simultaneously, filter bodily substances, and thousands of hearts will pump blood, and suddenly she is struck by the… — Maylis de Kerangal Copy Share
“thousands of lungs will swell as one across the way, thousands of livers will be soaked with beer, thousands of kidneys will, simultaneously, filter bodily substances, and thousands of hearts will pump blood, and suddenly she is struck by the fragmentation of the world, by the absolute discontinuity of reality in this small area, by the thought of humanity being… — Maylis de Kerangal Copy Share
“… and she understood that all forms of knowledge contain an element of transgression.” — Maylis de Kerangal Copy Share Image
“the two of them are pursuing a new trajectory begun only a few hours before, that they are no longer living in the same world as Cordélia and the planet’s other inhabitants but are moving away from it, absenting themselves, drifting toward another domain, the place where, perhaps, for a time, all those people would survive, together and inconsolable, all… — Maylis de Kerangal Copy Share
“The moment of death is no longer to be considered as the moment the heart stops, but as the moment when cerebral function ceases.… — Maylis de Kerangal Copy Share Image
“No sooner was she twenty-three years old than she was twenty-eight; no sooner twenty-eight than thirty-one; time is speeding past her while she examines… — Maylis de Kerangal Copy Share Image
