"… that provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day."
- Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette]

"A door slamming makes one jump, but it doesn't make one afraid. What one fears is the serpent that crawls underneath it."
- Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette]

"By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet."
- Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette]

"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
- Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette]

"One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs."
- Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette]

"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
- Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette]