God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it. — Amelie Nothomb Appreciate Copy Share Image
“The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so… — Amélie Nothomb Books Copy Share Image
“I glanced at the contents of what I was photocopying. They were the rules of the golf club of which Mister Saito… — Amélie Nothomb Family name Copy Share Image
“Principio según el cual una persona que me había enseñado a atarme los cordones de los zapatos no podía decir cualquier cosa” — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“As she went on with her labour, she became aware that she had Schubert's Erl-King going around in her head. It wasn't… — Amélie Nothomb Music Copy Share Image
It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels… — Amelie Nothomb Feels Copy Share Image
“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.” — Amélie Nothomb Writer Copy Share Image
The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image. — Amelie Nothomb Felt Copy Share Image
Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down -… — Amelie Nothomb Adam Copy Share Image
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more. — Amelie Nothomb Needs Copy Share Image
It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any… — Amelie Nothomb Chemicals Copy Share Image
“War reveals people's deeper nature.' 'I don't like that idea. It would suggest that we need to be put to the test.… — Amélie Nothomb Nature Copy Share Image
“Society conspires against her from early infancy. Her brain is steadily filled with plaster until it sets: ‘If you’re not married by… — Amélie Nothomb Body hair Copy Share Image
If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will… — Amelie Nothomb Admire Copy Share Image
“Las teorías sirven para irritar a los filisteos, para seducir a los estetas y para que los demás se rían” — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“I had this notion of passionate love: if it ever happened to me, I wouldn't be able to imagine a moment's separation.… — Amélie Nothomb Love Copy Share Image
I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write. — Amelie Nothomb Hungry Copy Share Image
“Don't you understand that girls die the day they begin puberty ? Worse than that, they die without disappearing.” — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“Preparare brava gente a incontrarmi! Una disciplina che si chiamerebbe "Arte di affrontare i geni"! Che orrore!” — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. — Amelie Nothomb Fine Copy Share Image
“What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best.” — Amélie Nothomb Flower Copy Share Image