Marcus

“Dès le début de la crise, ils avaient fait chambre à part. Coucher seul est difficile lorsqu’on en a perdu l’habitude, on a froid et on a peur ; mais ils avaient depuis longtemps dépassé ce stade pénible ; ils étaient parvenus à une sorte de désespoir standardisé.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

“Almost everyone failed, sometimes several times, before succeeding. Donald Trump himself had suffered failures.”
― Michel Houllebecq

“I’ve noticed that about people who had stable childhoods. They like to create their own problems.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“At this moment, Paul was hungry. He would go home, it was the only right thing to do, he said to himself before he realized there was nothing to eat at home, that the shelf in the refrigerator reserved for him would be despairingly empty, and that the very expression "home" was a testament of unreasonable optimism.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir