The Art of Sleeping Alone Quotes

“Those who set themselves free have the whole universe before them. I’ve seen it happen to people in their nineties. If I think back to my teenage years, I can see that I was like that: behind my appearance of obedience was the impulse to run away.”
― Sophie Fontanel, The Art of Sleeping Alone: Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex

“On est éberlué de ce que les gens se permettent de dévoiler sur l'intimité d'autrui.”
― Sophie Fontanel, The Art of Sleeping Alone: Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex

“If there was a party, everyone in turn would come sit next to me to regale me with how he or sh thought I should live and what I deserved to have. What it boiled down to was that I should live like them. Elvire, one half of a tightly knit couple would forget that her husband was clinically depressed. Guillaume, married to a harpy, maintained that if one laid low and said amen to everything, things worked out. Maria, fed up to the teeth with her children, wanted me to have my own. Assia loved women but it was killing her mother. Patrizio had bruises on his shoulders from his chronically jealous wife. Not one of them could stand my singleness, because it could have been theirs.”
― Sophie Fontanel, The Art of Sleeping Alone: Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex