Timothee De Fombelle Quotes

Perhaps it would be better if your whole life had the same transparency as in its final moments.

The shot has gone under my rib, Boulard my boy, so it must have been the shortest one who fired.
Even his final sigh was a police investigation.

For Ethel, it was exactly as if one of the twisted beech trees behind the castle had knocked at her door one morning to ask for her hand in marriage. What could she say? Yes, she loved those little trees beneath which she used to build her dens, she loved them dearly ... but would she have wanted to marry them?

Who could have predicted what would happen in the time it takes to boil an egg?

There are some closed doors we're so frightened of opening that we don't see them any more. We've pushed furniture in front of them; we've jammed the lock. Children are the only ones who might crouch down on all fours to stare at the red glow coming from under the door, as they wonder what lies behind it. But Vango had always been afraid of the glow.

He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them, he learned everything he believed it was possible to learn.

Music fears nobody. And it refuses to be caged. Finally,

I wasn't the only one drifting between two worlds. Each of them had their own secrets, their own stories that nobody else believed. Was there a single being onboard who could honestly say they'd never fallen in love with a fairy or a banished prince? We were all the same. Stories create us.

The world exploded when he passed by. Ashes were all he left behind.

I had set off, going straight ahead, to escape a broken heart. I had been walking for three hours, wherever the forest took me.

Perhaps it was because of his wife that Pippo the farmer dreamt of becoming a sailor. There are certain people on this earth who make you want to sail very far away, and above all for a very long time.