"The Lover" Quotes
A young French girl in 1920s Vietnam falls in love with a wealthy Chinese man in this lyrical and evocative autobiographical novel.
fiction | 117 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Very early in my life it was too late.
I'm not sure what I'm living for anymore.
He loved me so much. I loved him too, but not as much as he loved me.
Later, as in the weeks and months to come, I would ask myself why I had done it. I would hate myself for having done it, and then I would do it again.
It's after a love affair has ended that one is most likely to remember it.
I am incapable of making love to someone who doesn't love me.
I have no more tears. I have used them all up.
I am still waiting for him. It's as if everything else has been suspended in time.
The sound of the sea is the most beautiful and the most melancholy sound on earth.
I am the shadow of my own voice.





