The Heart-Keeper Quotes

“What wall is that's always set between human beings and their deepest, terrible wishes for happiness? Is the picture of that happiness, which they shape in themselves and show, forever incompatible with their life? Is it a time or the absence of time? Is it still since childhood, nursed desire?”
― Françoise Sagan, The Heart-Keeper

“It's strange: perhaps we should hate life to the end, so we could adore it in all it's shapes.”
― Françoise Sagan, The Heart-Keeper

“[I] hesitated to put on my lipstick in front of him. It seemed indecent, like undressing in front of a child.”
― Françoise Sagan, The Heart-Keeper