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“Les deux gendarmes sont déjà en train de se demander comment ils vont expliquer le vol de leur voiture par une adolescente déguisée en loutre, une autiste sévère et un garçon de quatorze ans. Peut-être songent-ils à leur reconversion.”
― Jacky Schwartzmann, Le théorème du kiwi

“Malcolm looked as if he wanted nothing more than to flee through the night, winding up in the morning perhaps in Rio de Janeiro or some other far-flung locale. Instead he sighed and resorted to the last bulwark of an Englishman under stress. “Tea?” he suggested.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“I'll find his grave, and bury you together. You had no descendants, but I'll remember you. And my descendants, and their descendants, will remember you, and pray for you, at the monument I'll build to your names.
Go into your next life. Live it, and bear its suffering. Do it again with the life after that, and the next, and with each one find it easier. Until one day, in a thousand years, the force of the universe will bring you and Esen-Temur back together to start afresh.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World

“J'ai parfois peur de mourir mais ma peur de vivre est une chose plus terrifiante encore. Il y a un risque plus grand que la mort, celui de n'avoir pas su vivre.”
― Édouard Cortès, Par la force des arbres