Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.
Amelie NothombOf course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.
Amelie Nothomb