La danseuse Quotes

“Why is Studio Wacker associated with the months of autumn and the beginning of winter, early in the morning when it was still dark and at the end of the afternoon when night had already fallen?”
― Patrick Modiano, La ballerina

“She ended up convincing herself it was just a dream, the kind that leaves its stench behind the next day, and even the following days, to the point where it blends with your daily life and you can no longer separate dream from reality. She hoped the dream wouldn’t recur. The best thing would be to change her address.”
― Patrick Modiano, La ballerina

“All those hours, it felt like you were melting into the city. You walked and you were but a mote of dust amid the other dust in the streets.”
― Patrick Modiano, La ballerina

“Over the past few days, then, images began coming back to me, in snatches, from a long-distant period of my life. Before this, they had been covered by a layer of ice. Still, at certain moments I had the vague premonition that this wouldn't last. It was fated that sooner or later the ice would melt and those images would float upward, like cadavers rising to the surface of the Seine.”
― Patrick Modiano, La ballerina

“And so a moment of the past gets encrusted in memory, like a flicker of light reaching you from a star that was thought long dead.”
― Patrick Modiano, La ballerina

“Time, which has blurred faces, has also erased reference points. All that remains are a few puzzle pieces, forever disconnected.”
― Patrick Modiano, La ballerina

“You have to tread carefully to outwit disorder and the traps of memory.”
― Patrick Modiano, La danseuse