Quotes by : Patrick Modiano

Something—he wondered later if it was simply his youth—something that had weighed upon him until....

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain.

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting....

That is her secret. A poor and precious secret that not even the executioners, the decrees, the occupying....

I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed them.....

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot....

Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to....

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

I had walked over to the window and was looking down at the rails of the Montmartre funicular, the gardens....