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“At the time, she knew nothing of all this. But what she found so attractive in him was, yes, a wound, what else could she call it, a wound that was the exact—no, the ideal—counterpart to her own. Guillaume had certainly had to deal with that wound, but as a doctor, not as a brother in poverty.”
― Anne Serre, The Beginners

“Hiking around like this, they experience the kind of joy that makes you eager for life, and eager to lead a fuller life. Whenever they walked past a leafy green enclosure they felt, not that happiness was there in that leafy green enclosure, but that happiness was like that, had the silent majesty of those leaves, the dimensions of that buoyant enclosure, the dreamy depths of its carpet of grass, and that they needed to have all these forces and qualities coursing through their life.”
― Anne Serre, The Governesses