33 Quotes by Delphine de Vigan

That’s the problem – our lives have stopped and the world keeps going round.

I thought there was nothing more worthwile or more respectable than directing the traffic, going from red to green and green to red in order to protect people.

Later, the body will assimilate the fear; it will enter the bloodstream, be diluted and become a constituent part of how it functions.

I often regret the fact that you can’t rub out words in mid-air like you can on paper, that there isn’t a special pen that you can wave in front of you to remove the clumsy words before anyone can hear them.

Perhaps that is what any encounter is, whether of lovers or friends: two forms of craziness that recognise and captivate each other.

I wanted Sundays in wintry colours, the smell of soup drifting from the kitchen. I wanted our lives to be like other people’s. I wanted everyone to have their place at the table, their time for the bathroom, their part in the domestic routine, for there be nothing to do by let time drift by.