Astragal Quotes

“I would like to stay like this, lazy, warm, in the silence where only our regular breathing can be heard, without ever having to make gestures, speak words which sell us out and betray us; this moment is real and alive, I stretch it into eternity...”
― Albertine Sarrazin, Astragal

“I am wounded and begging, and it's now I who offers herself and clings; people don't hold onto me at all, for I have nothing to give them but myself, myself naked, and it will take a lot of time and tenderness before some resource, some source springs up in me.”
― Albertine Sarrazin, Astragal

“The houses are far away, the ground is under our feet like an island; invisible, victorious, birds are singing, it’s the memory and oblivion of everything, it’s St. John’s Eve. Our kiss is as harmonious as nature.”
― Albertine Sarrazin, Astragal

“You can't wash away overnight several years of clockwork routine and constant disassembling of self.”
― Albertine Sarrazin, Astragal

“A life had taken shape, after my arrest: for years, I had let it sprout, joyously absurd, naive and shameless. In that life you were never carried off, petted, saved; you stood up straight, in the dark cages of the paddy wagon, or sat up on the hard wooden slats. But in that life, all the same, you could get your kicks in secret in the certainty of each day’s routine. My new freedom imprisons and paralyzes me.”
― Albertine Sarrazin, Astragal