I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?