Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of… — Violette Leduc Ecstasy Copy Share Image
I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say. — Violette Leduc Inspirational Copy Share Image
At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for… — Violette Leduc Age Copy Share Image
“It’s incredible,” she sighed. My eyebrows brushed Isabelle’s eyebrows. “It’s incredible the way I’m seeing you,” — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
“It is not only streams and rivers that flow: a street, with a door set back from it, can slide over into… — Violette Leduc Closed door Copy Share Image
To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal. — Violette Leduc Been Copy Share Image
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music.… — Violette Leduc Burning Copy Share Image
“Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat.… — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
“I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.” — Violette Leduc Spirituality Copy Share Image
“Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of… — Violette Leduc Heavy burden Copy Share Image
To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To… — Violette Leduc Acclaim Copy Share Image
We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier… — Violette Leduc Bigger Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were misting over, her heart was talking on her lips. To need everything when everything is finished. She no longer… — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
