Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

"What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork."

"But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others... Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden outside, this moment, so tender, so strange in the middle of war, this will never change, not this, this is forever."

"...because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred."

"Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance."

"Waiting is erotic"