“ Mais les signes de ce qui m'attendait réellement, je les ai tous négligés. Je travaille mon diplôme sur le surréalisme à la bibliothèque de Rouen, je sors, je traverse le square Verdrel, il fait doux,… Annie Ernaux
“ Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me? Annie Ernaux
“ Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people… Annie Ernaux
