Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc

There's no sustenance in the past.

Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc

At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came.

Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc

My mother never took my hand.

Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc

I was afraid of having to present my big nose to strangers.