La Vie en mieux Quotes

“Si tu tiens vraiment à quelque chose dans la vie, eh bien, fais ce qu’il faut pour ne pas le perdre.”
― Anna Gavalda, La Vie en mieux

“• Mais c’est magnifique de souffrir quand on est en bonne santé. C’est un privilège ! Il n’ya que les morts qui ne souffrent plus ! Réjouis-toi, ma belle ! Va, cours, vole, espère, plante-toi, saigne ou festoie, mais vis ! Vis un peu !”
― Anna Gavalda, La Vie en mieux

“Then, life went back to normal.
That’s what people say when nothing happens, right?
When you forget your New Year’s resolutions, when you abandon your dreams of freedom (why leave when my room was just repaired?) and greatness (why resume my studies when my computer’s raking in money for me like a one-armed bandit?), and when you drink like a fish and run around making comedies that aren’t romantic at all.”
― Anna Gavalda, La Vie en mieux

“Friend of the Gatsbys . . .”
― Anna Gavalda, La Vie en mieux

“Is your name really Romeo?”
“No.”
“Oh.”
“It’s Jean-Baptiste.”
“Oh.”
“Are you disappointed?”
“No.”
Talk about snappy dialogue.”
― Anna Gavalda, La Vie en mieux

“I cried from the Place de l'Etoile to the Place de Clichy.
I cried all the way across Paris. I cried for my life.”
― Anna Gavalda, La Vie en mieux

“Was this my afternoon away from the funny farm where I lived during the rest of the week?”
― Anna Gavalda, La Vie en mieux

“Isn’t Facebook fantasy? And Match.com, and OkCupid, and Meetup? And all those ridiculous social websites. All those miserable cauldrons where you stir your loneliness in between two advertisements, all those “likes”, all those networks of imaginary friends, monitored communities, penniless, sheeplike, paying fraternities connected to wealthy servers... what is that?

And that anxiety, that permanent state of missing something, that empty space beside you, these telephones that you’re endlessly messing with, these screens you have to unlock again and again and again, these lives you buy so you can keep playing, this wound, this plug, these clenched fists in your pocket? That way you - all of you - have to keep checking and checking all the time to see if someone has left you a note, a message, a sign, a call back, a notification, an advertisement, an... an anything.”
― Anna Gavalda, La Vie en mieux

“Phones, text messages, screens, chats, and e-mails... I didn’t want these imaginary borders on my map of Tendre anymore.

I’d given; I’d suffered; I’d paid for my share of all these half-assed, absurd, naive plans imposed on us by love in the digital age.”
― Anna Gavalda, La Vie en mieux

“Résumons : Ce qu’il faut, c’est être égoïste. Au moins un eu égoïste. Sinon tu ne vis pas vraiment et à la fin, tu meurs quand même.”
― Anna Gavalda, La Vie en mieux