Quotes by : Pascal Mercier

Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and....

There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader--it....

It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

We can be sure that we will hold on to the deathbed as part of the last balance sheet – and this part....

...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely....

How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of....

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return.....

Why do we feel sorry for people who can't travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not....

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away.....