La Petite Bijou Quotes

“On winter mornings when it's dark and the air is crisp, the lights are still shining and the first customers are gathered at the counter like conspirators. They give you the illusion that the day will be a new adventure. And that illusion stats with you for at least some of the morning.”
― Patrick Modiano, La Petite Bijou

“Life is completely different when you live near a railway station. It feels as if you're just passing through. Everything is temporary. One day or another, you'll hop on a train.”
― Patrick Modiano, La Petite Bijou

“One has to be aware of so-called witnesses.”
― Patrick Modiano, La Petite Bijou

“Usually, when I came home by myself at night, I would get to the corner or Rue Coustou and suddenly feel like I was leaving the present and sliding into a zone where time had stopped. And I was terrified of never being able to cross back, to return to Place Blanche, where life was being lived. I though I would remain forever a prisoner of that little street and that room, like Sleeping Beauty.”
― Patrick Modiano, La Petite Bijou