Pedigree Quotes

“I was happy when I walked the streets of Paris by myself.”
― Patrick Modiano, Pedigree: A Memoir

“She was a pretty girl with an arid heart. Her fiancé had given her a chow-chow, but she didn’t take care of it and left it with various people, as she would later do with me. The chow-chow killed itself by leaping from a window. The dog appears in two or three photos, and I have to admit that he touches me deeply and that I feel a great kinship with him.”
― Patrick Modiano, Pedigree: A Memoir

“The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none.”
― Patrick Modiano, Un pedigree

“Y pasan los días, y los meses. Y las estaciones. A veces, me gustaría dar marcha atrás y volver a vivir todos esos años mejor de lo que los viví. Pero ¿cómo?”
― Patrick Modiano, Pedigree: A Memoir