Il signore delle anime Quotes

“Sonrieron. Se entendían bien. No sólo los unía la carne, el pensamiento, el amor; además, habían nacido en el mismo puerto de Crimea, hablaban la misma lengua, se sentían hermanos. Habían bebido en la misma fuente, compartido un pan amargo.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Le maître des âmes

“- Però per què em dius tot això? Jo odio el meu passat! L'odio!
- Perquè ell és tu i tu ets ell.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Le maître des âmes

“Dario, it’s a great joy for a husband and wife to speak the same language, to have gone hungry together, been humiliated together. Don’t you think so?” Without waiting for him to reply, she walked away and went to wash the glasses in the kitchen. She was singing softly. For a long time, Dario listened to the sound of the running water and that song . . . He’d heard it so many times . . . At the inn in the Crimea, opposite their shabby lodgings, when the sailors all sang it during the long winter nights. That song irritated him, made him feel regret and anger, both at once, like certain memories that you’re ashamed of but that you hold dear because they are your life itself, and seem to flow through you, like your blood.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Master of Souls