The Summer Boy Quotes

“Parce qu'on ne sait pas que celui qui, de loin, semble nager, peut être en réalité en train de couler.”
― Philippe Besson, Un soir d'été

“his shyness is a kind of fear, or the memory of fear; that his silence is a difficulty in speaking; that his gentleness is a fragility; his solitude a form of exclusion...”
― Philippe Besson, The Summer Boy

“We have a remarkable capacity to do nothing.”
― Philippe Besson, The Summer Boy: The essential literary beach read from the author of Lie With Me