Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers Quotes

“Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience. The voracity it breeds! That quantity of quiddity compressed and quickened and sent at you! It's a little bit mad, isn't it, to hold a faithful flame for the one you've picked, when no such choice is required of you? The sane response to a rainbow is not to pick your favourite colour.”
― Antonia Quirke, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers

“My first plan was to impress him with the commitment of my reviews. I found out a lot of statistics and waved them at him like breasts at the pub on Thursday.”
― Antonia Quirke, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers

“Even to know that delight, in a perfect world, would be the proper response to life is a simplicity beyond most of us.”
― Antonia Quirke, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers

“He tells you, more than anyone else, that a body is what a soul looks like, that the way you speak and move is all there is and nothing more need be said.”
― Antonia Quirke, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers

“Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder and reality, trying to reconcile the two in her enormous, inarticulate heart. Madame Bovary, c'est toi, perhaps, dear reader. Madame Bovary, c'est tout le monde.”
― Antonia Quirke, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers

“Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.”
― Antonia Quirke, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers