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La petite fille de Monsieur Linh QUOTES

La petite fille de Monsieur Linh QUOTES

1 " De vez en cuando un milagro, oro y risas, y de nuevo la esperanza cuando crees que a tu alrededor todo es destrucción y silencio. "

― Philippe Claudel , La petite fille de Monsieur Linh

2 " Qu'est-ce que donc que la vie humaine si ce n'est un collier de blessures que l'on porte autour de son cou? A quoi sert d'aller ainsi dans les jours, les mois, les années, toujours plus faible, toujours meurtri? "

― Philippe Claudel , La petite fille de Monsieur Linh

3 " ¿Qué es la vida sino un collar de heridas que cada hombre se cuelga del cuello? "

― Philippe Claudel , La petite fille de Monsieur Linh

4 " Although he does not know the meaning of the words spoken by this man who has been sitting beside him for several minutes, he is aware that he likes the sound of his voice, its solemn power. He may also like the sound of this voice precisely because he is unable to understand the words it utters, and is therefore sure that they will not hurt him, they will not say what he does not wish to hear, they will not ask painful questions, they will not go back into the past in order to resurrect it brutally and hurl it at his feet like a bloody corpse. "

― Philippe Claudel , La petite fille de Monsieur Linh

5 " Il serre la jolie poupée dans ses bras maigres, il la serre comme si sa vie en dépendait, il la serre comme il serrerait une vraie petite fille, silencieuse, tranquille et éternelle, une petite fille de l'aube et de l'orient. Son unique petite fille. La petite-fille de Monsieur Linh. "

― Philippe Claudel , La petite fille de Monsieur Linh

6 " «De vez en
cuando un milagro, oro y risas, y de nuevo la esperanza cuando
crees que a tu alrededor todo es destrucción y silencio.» "

― Philippe Claudel , La petite fille de Monsieur Linh

7 " El anciano se llama Linh. Es el único que lo sabe, porque el resto de las personas que lo sabían están muertas. "

― Philippe Claudel , La petite fille de Monsieur Linh

8 " An old man is standing on the after-deck of a ship. In his arms he clasps a flimsy suitcase and a newborn baby, even lighter than the suitcase. The old man’s name is Monsieur Linh. He is the only person who knows this is his name because all those who once knew it are dead. "

― Philippe Claudel , La petite fille de Monsieur Linh

9 " Nothing is like anything he knows. It’s like being born a second time. "

― Philippe Claudel , La petite fille de Monsieur Linh

10 " What the old man senses is that the tone of Monsieur Bark’s voice denotes sadness, a deep melancholy, a sort of wound the voice accentuates, which accompanies it beyond words and language, something that infuses it just as the sap infuses a tree without one seeing it. "

― Philippe Claudel , La petite fille de Monsieur Linh

11 " The strange land exhausts him. Death exhausts him. It has fed on him in the way young eager goats suckle their mother, forcing her to lie on her side because she cannot continue. Death has taken everything from him. He has nothing left. He is thousands of kilometres from a village that no longer exists, thousands of kilometres from the empty tombs of the corpses who died only a few feet away from them. He is thousands of days away from a life that was once beautiful and delightful. "

― Philippe Claudel , La petite fille de Monsieur Linh