Extraits

“A sea roared inside her and made demands, but she waded it, she bobbed up, took a breath, and opened her eyes to the cold winter morning. Then she rose because the day was there, the world was there, and she wanted to be part of it.”

“He knew that in the years to come, even when they were old and gray and their spines were bent by the weight of time, he would remember her as she was in that moment, with a couple of stray yellow flowers in her hair, her lips parted. He stood still, holding the moment against his heart. Then she turned her head and smiled at him.”

But even when she gave nothing, he was happy because she was everything.”

“We say many things when we are young. Eventually, we grow wiser.”

“Do you remember what it was to be young?" She asked. "Every trouble would be solved by sundown, and every dawn you'd have a new chance to remake the world.”

“Now she was there, real and solid, and he wanted to die without her and wanted to live for her.”

“It was not effortlessly. It tore me apart, but the poison has bled out.”

“She imagined the diamond comb weighing the girl down, like an anchor, tying her to Luc.”

“I suppose that's what bothers me most about Gaetan's home : It's awfully quiet. You could hear a pin fall in the hallway.

"A museum of a house.”

“But there was a mysterious assertiveness in her eyes at times, which he enjoyed, and her hair was nice— it made him curious, he wished to touch it.”