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Painting Time QUOTES

Painting Time QUOTES

1 " Summer sharpens, the city takes on another speed, puts on another soundtrack, voids appear, flat, vacant, abandoned zones, the sun burns like a white-hot disc, and Paula idles. "

― Maylis de Kerangal , Painting Time

2 " Paula hugs them in front of the hotel entrance, see you tomorrow, the big day, but she doesn't leave right away, stays there watching them through the glass, not letting her eyes leave them as they cross the lobby to the elevator, slow and calm; and then her eyes progressively frame them in a reality that has finally detached from her own in order to become theirs, as if they suddenly belonged to another world, as if they were characters in a film, moving inside a story from which she was absent. "

― Maylis de Kerangal , Painting Time