Delphine de Vigan Quotes

• I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this meaning governed the way the world was. But it's an illusion to think that there are good and bad reasons. Grammar is a lie to make us think that what we say is connected by a logic that you'll find if you study it, a lie that gone on for centuries. Because I now know that life just lurches between stability and instability and doesn't obey any law.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Lying, Thinking, Law

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.143, A&C Black

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• My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Dad, My Dad, Stills

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• Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.

  Delphine de Vigan

  War, Eye, Blood

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.156, A&C Black

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• People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• But sometimes the night reveals the only truth that time passes and things will never be seen the same again.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Night, Sometimes, Time Passes

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• You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Real, Lines, Draws

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.67, A&C Black

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• And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that we've got our lives ahead of us, our whole lives.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Sweet, Thinking, Giving

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.96, A&C Black

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• Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Secret, Stones, Fossils

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• I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering. It’s not to do with vocabulary or meanings, because I know quite a lot of words, but when I come out with them they get confused and scattered. That’s why I avoid stories and speeches and just stick to answering the questions I’m asked. All the extra words, the overflow, I keep to myself, the words that I silently multiply to get close to the truth.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Confused, Vocabulary, Escaping

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.18, A&C Black

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• All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a distance, as though I were the only one able to hear the sounds or words that other's can't, and deaf to the words that they hear. As if I'm outside the frame, on the other side of a huge, invisible window.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Distance, Sound, Able

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• If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Two, One Day, Lines

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.14, A&C Black

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