Honeymoon Quotes

“Then she lowered her arm and the gate closed behind her. That arm suddenly falling and the metallic clank of the gate shutting made me understand that from one moment to another one can lose heart.”
― Patrick Modiano, Honeymoon

“People don’t come back any more. Haven’t you noticed that, Monsieur?”
― Patrick Modiano, Honeymoon

“In those days, I thought I was happy.”
― Patrick Modiano, Honeymoon

“Unless the line of a life, once it has reached its term, purges itself of all its useless and decorative elements. In which case, all that remains is the essential: the blanks, the silences and the pauses.”
― Patrick Modiano, Honeymoon

“I recognized one of the qualities I most admired in my wife: the beautiful big handwriting of the illiterate that she was. Darling,”
― Patrick Modiano, Honeymoon

“How could the war have any semblance of reality when you found yourself sitting under a plane tree in a playground, in the provincial calm of an early afternoon?”
― Patrick Modiano, Honeymoon

“All those journeys, those countries where they had monsoons, earthquakes, amoebas and virgin forests, had lost their charm for me.”
― Patrick Modiano, Honeymoon