Boy Quotes

“Ça m'a fait un peu mal, cette voix sans visage, toute grave, tendue et ces cinq petits mots : Mais enfin je suis là.”
― Christine de Rivoyre, Boy

“So I say to him: Lord, make an exception of me. Since You are All-Powerful, destroy my soul rather than my body. I don’t want to become dust and ashes —— ashes, what a lovely word, but never mind that — I would prefer to remain a body, to keep my skin, my bones, my legs. I could manage without a soul. Lord, deprive me of consciousness, memory, imagination, even the power of speech, but leave me my senses. Not a day has passed since the beginning of the holidays, when I have not striven to kill my soul.”
― Christine de Rivoyre, Boy