“Yes, like Mummy, the library gives you a magic kiss and everything’s better. Love life in ruins? Hate everyone? Despair over the state of the planet? Headache? Insomnia? Indigestion? Corns? I can tell you, there’s nothing the library can’t cure.”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
“I’d better put my earrings on, you never know.”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
“You don’t shut yourself up for ten hours a day to write, if everything in your life is absolutely hunky-dory. Writing only happens when something’s wrong.”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
“I’m doing the same as Jean-Paul. And she called herself a feminist! Oh, the heartache … Martin and this blonde, no it breaks my heart to imagine that he could be in love”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
“Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
“Existentialism Is a Humanism = 194 SAR. If you just remember that, your night will not have been wasted.”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
“Men just have to make their mark on a book, put in their corrections, their opinions.”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
“That’s where I’m contradictory: I like men who are more intelligent than me, but the idea that they might think me stupid paralyses me.”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
“It’s a waste of time, it’s a childish, tiring, stupid way of upsetting yourself. Have you ever noticed what people look like when they’re in love? They look either ill or stupid.”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
“What good will it have been to spend my entire youth in overheated libraries?”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
“Dewey is the Mendeleev of librarians. Not the Periodic Table of Elements, but the classification of areas of culture.”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
“When that fanatic Dewey classified literature, he set up a monument of ethnocentrism”—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
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