The Gigolo Quotes

“At my age, one doesn’t think of death, one clings to life.’ One clings to the pleasures of money, of the night; one makes the most of things, and of people, such as this young man walking beside one down a deserted woodland path.”
― Françoise Sagan, The Gigolo

“The cruel smirk of youth which had made her cold, hard and wounding, and had so often caused her to end an affair.”
― Françoise Sagan, The Gigolo

“He was still holding her hand in his. He would die with a woman’s hand in his; all would be well. What did it matter if the woman was his own wife? ‘Happiness between two people,’ he said, ‘it’s not so easy.”
― Françoise Sagan, The Gigolo

“Of course you will,’ she said. It was funny: she really didn’t love him any more. She knew perfectly well that he was lost, done for. But it was such a long time ago that ‘she’ had lost him.”
― Françoise Sagan, The Gigolo

“When one is happy, when one is doing what one likes to do – and also when other people like one – one has no right to sit about on tree trunks, alone, in the cold, beside a lake no one has ever heard of.”
― Françoise Sagan, The Gigolo