“Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don't even know.”
— Patrick Modiano, So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
“Nuestro acercamiento no sólo cambió su futuro, también transformó nuestro pasado.”
— Édouard Louis, Lucha y metamorfosis de una mujer.
“Nous sommes une communauté de désirs, non d'action.”
— Annie Ernaux, Regarde les lumières mon amour
“Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity-the illusory feeling that the course of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap that is closing around you.”
— Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder