“I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.”

“I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.”

“Whenever I hear a kid complain about their parents or even their siblings, I want to shake them. They don't realize what they have, and they especially don't realize that it could be taken away from them at any time.”

“And I realized something I never had before. Deep down, I want to be seen as an object too. I want to be coveted and sought after. I want to be taken apart and understood, reassembled, filed away in Didier's cabinet. I don't even need to be pretty to have this. I only have to allow him to open me up.”

“there is something admirable ... to have to coexist ... some thousands of souls for whom even the hope of a last judgment has been taken away.”

“What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.”