Marriage Quote by Timothée de Fombelle

“Perhaps it was because of his wife that Pippo the farmer dreamt of becoming a sailor. There are certain people on this earth who…

— Timothée de Fombelle

“I had set off, going straight ahead, to escape a broken heart. I had been walking for three hours, wherever the forest took me.”

— Timothée de Fombelle

“In an ideal world, we might have dreamed of a benevolent hand intervening so that one of them tarried a little longer while the…

— Timothée de Fombelle

“[Toby] reflected that being cruel sometimes makes you rich and powerful, but it always makes you ugly.”

— Timothée de Fombelle

“The wounded beast I had been tracking was me.”

— Timothée de Fombelle

He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them, he learned…

— Timothee de Fombelle

“Perhaps it would be better if your whole life had the same transparency as in its final moments.”

— Timothée de Fombelle

“Little tree filled his lungs with the white airness of the night, as if he were going to fly. The living voice of his…

— Timothee de Fombelle

“He was frightened for his country. Slowly and tragically it was drifting in the wrong direction. Something had to be done. Tiny gestures. Barely…

— Timothée de Fombelle

Who could have predicted what would happen in the time it takes to boil an egg?

— Timothee de Fombelle

There are some closed doors we’re so frightened of opening that we don’t see them any more. We’ve pushed furniture in front of them;…

— Timothee de Fombelle

“The shot has gone under my rib, Boulard my boy, so it must have been the shortest one who fired." Even his final sigh…

— Timothée de Fombelle