A Leopard-Skin Hat Quotes

“Basically, the Narrator said to himself, the idea we form of others comes solely from their relationship with ourselves. Seen through their relationship with someone else, they are necessarily slightly different. And should we catch a glimpse of them in the privacy of their own self (which is impossible without spying on them or rummaging through their papers) they are someone of whom we know strictly nothing.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat

“Her life even seemed to come together, her emotions to fall back into place. As if doing a little harm could do you a little good, not because it gave you some unspeakable thrill (certainly not) but because it instilled a certain gravity in you, whereby you began to resemble the rest of the world, the ones who live, who somehow manage to live.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat

“She knows - or rather, is haunted by - all sorts of things she'll never talk about to anyone. Mainly because she's frightened of these revelations that go coursing through her, but also because naming them would give them a reality, an existence. She's more interested in casting them out.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat

“She was like a horse in fetters, it was truly dreadful to behold: to be so full of life, yet bound up in chains. And for what? To what end? Merely to endure, to endure a little longer.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat

“As if doing a little harm could do you a little good, not because it gave you some unspeakable thrill - certainly not - but because it instilled a certain gravity in you, whereby you began to resemble the rest of the world, the ones who live, who somehow manage to live.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat

“Her life even seemed to come together, her emotions to fall back into place. As if doing a little harm could do you a lile good, not because it gave you some unspeakable thrill (certainly not) but because it instilled a certain gravity in you, whereby you began to resemble the rest of the world, the ones who live, who somehow manage to live.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat

“Her life even seemed to come together, her emotions to fall back into place. As if doing a lile harm could do you a lile good, not because it gave you some unspeakable thrillcertainly notbut because it instilled a certain gravity in you, whereby you began to resemble the rest of the world, the ones who live, who somehow manage to live.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat

“She doesn’t really take in the scenery, except in a desultory sort of way. It’s inside herself that she looks, astonished at the sight of this dark turmoil, puzzled to be harboring such a thing, understandably a bit skeptical, but doing what she can to acknowledge its incredible existence.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat

“When you’re out on a limb, you have to try everything.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat

“Much of the time Fanny’s body was lost in thought, like the rest of her being.
Quizzical even. She had a way of standing in her swimsuit in a mountain lake, up to her knees in water, like a question. She wasn’t gazing off into the distance, nor was she contemplating the shimmering veil of the lake’s surface exactly; no, she was simply standing there, waiting for something manifestly impossible to happen, some unearthly apparition or reckoning; and were you then to gently recall her to her “senses,” she would emerge from a grim, dreamlike state beneath the dome of which no bird flew.”
― Anne Serre, A Leopard-Skin Hat