Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.
Marguerite DurasHe says heโs lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says sheโs lonely too. She doesnโt say why.
Marguerite DurasThe thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
Marguerite DurasThe outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.
Marguerite Duras