Boxes Quotes

“Children are Nazis; they recognize only one race: their own.”
― Pascal Garnier, Boxes

“Blanche kept up the conversation with the verbal incontinence of someone who hasn’t spoken to another human since the world ended.”
― Pascal Garnier, Boxes

“Supremely indifferent to the chorus of car horns behind them, they [Breton Movers] took their time maneuvering into position, displaying with their Herculean strength the utmost disdain for the rest of humanity … As in all good criminal bands, the shortest one was the leader. Mind you, what Raymond lacked in height he made up for in width. He looked like an overheated Godin stove. Perhaps it was an occupational hazard, but they each were reminiscent of a piece of furniture: the one called Jean-Jean, a Louis-Phillipe chest of drawers; Ludo, a Normandy wardrobe; and the tall, shifty looking one affectionately known as the Eel, a grandfather clock … Each of them exuded a smell of musk, of wild animal escaped from its cage… Each worker made it clear that (Brice) had no business getting under their feet. At that point, the existential lack of purpose which had dogged him from earliest childhood assumed monumental proportions, and he suggested going to fetch them cold drinks.”
― Pascal Garnier, Boxes

“Don’t believe what they tell you. There’s nothing above us, and nothing beneath. Just us, here and now, like survivors of a shipwreck.”
― Pascal Garnier, Boxes

“A few drops of rain splashed down on his feet, and spread like ink on blotting paper. No two fell in the same spot.”
― Pascal Garnier, Boxes

“The situation was approaching a question of life or death, which can be a hard one to answer.”
― Pascal Garnier, Boxes