“ One should never expect anyone to reply to one's questions. ”
My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...
~ Patrick Modiano
I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed them.
Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don't even know.
Did you see her again in France? I asked him.”“No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ...”“Why?”“She often told me she was frightened of getting old...
