Irène Némirovsky said this quote

Waiting is erotic

~ Irène Némirovsky

Deep within everyone's heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming. For several weeks or months, rarely longer, a beautiful young woman lives outside ordinary life. She is intoxicated. She feels as if she exists beyond time, beyond its laws; she experiences not the monotonous succession of days passing by, but moments of intense, almost desperate happiness.

~ Irène Némirovsky

Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance.

~ Irène Némirovsky

...because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.

~ Irène Némirovsky