Quote by David Foenkinos Download Open image ““Now, between them, there was literature.”” — David Foenkinos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We were like matching bookends, almost touching but with volumes between us and stories, so many stories.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents- were they the stuff of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them, Idea and friendship.” — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.” — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“And then, one morning, you're startled to discover that you no longer feel this terrible burden. What a surprise to notice that the angst… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
“Words do not always need a destination. We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings. Running around headless in the vague… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
“She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.” — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on,… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
“The art of love? It's knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.” — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
“Moreover, as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from here and now. She… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility. — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
