45 Quotes by Anna Gavalda

I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test.

She drew the Loire. Slow, wide, calm, imperturbable. The lazy sandbanks, the pilings, the mildewed boats. Over there, a cormorant. Pale rushes and the blue of the sky. A winter blue- metallic, brilliant, bold, showing off its colors between two big weary clouds.

Mais tu n'es pas aussi abruti qu'on le dit, quand même!.. Si, tu l'es?

Mais tu n’es pas aussi abruti qu’on le dit, quand même!.. Si, tu l’es?

Она сидела напротив него и улыбалась. Это было её секретное оружие, её фирменный приём. Улыбнуться неудобному собеседнику, чтобы сменить тему разговора, — никто пока не придумал способа действеннее. («Просто вместе»)

J’aime les gens qui prennent leur vie en main, moi ! Je n’aime pas les feignants qui se font plaindre.

Look, isn't this beautiful? So simple. Just one stroke, and there you are. A flower, a fish, a grasshopper. Look at this duck, how angry it looks; or these mountains in the mist. And you see how he's drawn the mist? As if it were nothing, just an emptiness. And these chicks, see them? So soft you want to stroke them. Look, his ink is like down, his ink is soft...

The purer the elements, the purer the work. In painting, there are two methods of expression, form and color; and the purer the colors, the purer the beauty of the work.

At the end of the afternoon she tore herself away from the story to go and buy some tobacco. This would be tricky on a holiday, but never mind, it was mainly a pretext so the story could settle and she'd have the pleasure of meeting up with her new friend again a bit later on.