Patrick Modiano Quotes

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

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

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

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

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

One should never expect anyone to reply to one's questions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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