Nathalie Sarraute Quotes

“We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.”

“Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly.”

“We are trapped here up on this wall by an evil beyond comprehension. It is here that we are damned to remain for all eternity, under the grime of centuries, beyond time. When even the paint falls off and these prison-canvases are bare again… well, then we are in limbo,” the poor man opened his eyes wide giving them a ghostly look.”

“I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person.”

“Once I finished reading a good book, it gives me a hard time coping up with reality.”

“I have loved you from the moment you opened your eyes, and I will continue to love you long after I close mine. I will always be yours Aurora. I don’t exist without you.”

“Why are you stripping in my front yard at six in the morning? I have neighbors you know.”

“the poet I saw once...but whose words have long beenin my mind, windows of invincible candles... ”

“You must try to have a positive attitude. It does not matter how small a person is. One can still change the future. Size is only a state of mind. You know – it is how you use your wits that counts. Nothing can stop us, if we put our hearts into it. Anything is achievable girls, anything at all!”

“Maybe this journey is a way for you to get your redemption..." he said softly, "Maybe, if Elder Man Belduran is right, it is the start of a journey, that leads to redemption for all of us...""Not all of us... There's no redemption for Elder Man Vaymaz..." Melchor replied softly, before turning and continuing to walk.”