“Mother says: Life is made like string. We need to braid it until we can no longer distinguish its threads from our fingers.”
“I first read part of the novel À la recherche du temps perdu, translated into English by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, in January 1961, when I was aged a few weeks less than twenty-two years. What I read at that time was a single paperback volume with the title Swann’s Way.”
