I Remain in Darkness Quotes

“I have searched for my mother's love in all the corners of the world.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

“Pain cannot be kept intact, it needs to be “processed,” converted into humor.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

“Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?”
― Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

“To grow old is to fade, to become transparent.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

“All the hardships I have endured were merely rehearsals to prepare me for this devastating pain.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

“As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

“entiendo el verso de Éluard, «el tiempo desborda».”
― Annie Ernaux, No he salido de mi noche

“The situation is reversed, now she is my little girl. I cannot be her mother.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

“Más pena por fuera que por dentro. Como si la buscara fuera. Fuera es el mundo. Antes ella estaba en alguna parte, en el mundo.”
― Annie Ernaux, No he salido de mi noche

“El odio y el amor. Nunca pude decirle mi aborto. Pero ya no tiene importancia.”
― Annie Ernaux, No he salido de mi noche

“No pensar que podía morirse.”
― Annie Ernaux, No he salido de mi noche

“I have searched for my mothers love in all corners of the world”
― Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness