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.

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

When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able....

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

How much longer would we go on being old young people? They wavedgoodbye to me. I was moved by Annette.....

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

Finally, the horizon stretched out infinitely before me and I felt utterly content looking at stars from....

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

Did you see her again in France?" I asked him.”“No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She....