Summer Rain Quotes

“The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.”
― Marguerite Duras, Summer Rain

“What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.”
― Marguerite Duras, Summer Rain

“Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe...”
― Marguerite Duras, Summer Rain

“Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.”
― Marguerite Duras, Summer Rain

“Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.”
― Marguerite Duras, Summer Rain