“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain”
“The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.”
“Death is never an excuse to stop living.”
“No matter what our age, we ought to never stop eating books, for books are the feast of the imagination.”
“That was the end of the first part of Paris. Paris was never to be the same again although it was always Paris and you changed as it changed. We never went back to the Vorarlberg and neither did the rich.”
“I never talk about the end game." He winked at her. "I've lived so long without death that I've stopped believing in it.”