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“But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“كانت جميلة جدًا .. من ذاك النوع من الجمال الذي يجعلك تضع نقاط تعجب في كل مكان”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Après leur dernier échange, il était parti lentement. Sans faire de bruit. Aussi discret qu'un point-virgule dans un roman de huit cents pages.”
― David Foenkinos, La délicatesse

“Pensée d’un philosophe polonais
Il y a des gens formidables
Qu’on rencontre au mauvais moment.
Et il y a des gens qui sont formidables
Parce qu’on les rencontre au bon moment.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on, and then all it takes is a tiny movement of the lips to shatter your confidence in a certainty that seemed eternal.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“وجدت نفسها وحيدة على شفير الهاوية ، وشعرت تمامًا بالهشاشة تجتاحها”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“أن تحب حقًا امرأة حد عدم الرغبة في رؤيتها”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Now, between them, there was literature.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Organizing a marriage is like forming a government after a war.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Elle avançait dans leur salon et tout était là. À l'identique. Rien n'avait bougé. La couverture toujours sur le canapé. La théière aussi sur la table basse, avec le livre qu'elle était en train de lire. Et fut saisie tout particulièrement par la vision du marque-page. Le livre était ainsi coupé en deux ; la première partie avait été lue du vivant de François. Et à la page 321, il était mort. Que fallait-il faire ? Peut-on poursuivre la lecture d'un livre interrompu par la mort de son mari ?”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“أحست بإنهاك قوي لدرجة أن لا شيء في هذه اللحظات كان بإمكانه إخافتها”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Most couples love to tell each other their stories and assume their meeting had something exceptional about it; countless pairings formed under the most banal conditions are, all the same, spiced up with details that produce a minor thrill.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“ضحكت ضحكة من تلك الضحكات الكبيرة التي تخرج منا عندما نكون متعبين ، فلا يعود باستطاعتنا إيقافها”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“The art of love? It's knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“كان يتملكهما الإحساس أنهما كلما تشتتا ، كلما توحدا أكثر”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Il continuait inlassablement à caresser les cheveux de Nathalie. Il les aimait tellement, il voulait les connaître un par un, savoir leur histoire et leur pensée. Il voulait partir en voyage dans ses cheveux...”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“احتضن أحدهما الآخر ، فقد كانت تلك أفضل طريقة في العالم لاستحضار الصمت”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“غالبًا ما يبحث المرء ليهديء نفسه عن أشياء تزيد توتره”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Not to let yourself go, what a strange expression. You’re letting yourself go whatever happens. Life is about letting yourself go. That was all she wanted: to let herself go; or rather, to let go. To stop feeling the weight of each second.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“So he asked her what she’d like to drink. Her choice would be crucial. If she orders a decaf, he thought, I’m getting up and leaving. No one was entitled to drink a decaf when it came to this type of encounter. It’s the least gregarious drink there is. Tea isn’t much better. Just met, and already settling into some kind of dull cocoon. You feel like you’re going to end up spending Sunday afternoons watching TV. Or worse: at the in-laws��. Yes, tea is indisputably in-law territory. Then what? Alcohol? No good for this time of day. You could have qualms about a woman who starts drinking right away like that. Even a glass of red wine isn’t going to cut it. François kept waiting for her to choose what she’d like to drink, and this was how he kept up his liquid analysis of first impressions of women. What was left now? Coke, or any type of soda �� no, not possible, that didn’t say woman at all. Might as well ask for a straw, too, while she was at it. Finally he decided that juice was good. Yes, juice, that was nice. It’s friendly and not too aggressive. You can sense the kind of sweet, well-balanced woman who would make such a choice. But which juice? Better to avoid the great classics: apple, orange, too popular. It would have to be only slightly original without being completely eccentric. Papaya or guava—frightening. No, the best is choosing something in between, like apricot. That’s it. Apricot juice: perfect. If she chooses it, I’ll marry her, thought François. At that precise instant, Natalie raised her head from the menu, as if emerging from a long reflection. It was the same reflection in which the stranger opposite her had just been absorbed. “I’ll have a juice…�� “��?�� “Apricot juice, I guess.�� He looked at her as if she were a violation of reality.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Pourquoi sommes-nous autant marqués par un détail, un geste, qui font de ces instants minimes le coeur d'une époque?”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Así son las cosas: siempre vamos con cinco minutos de retraso con respecto a nuestras conversaciones sentimentales.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“Each breath of air a world”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“And then, one morning, you're startled to discover that you no longer feel this terrible burden. What a surprise to notice that the angst has disappeared. Why on that particular day? Why not later, or sooner? It's the totalitarian decision of our body.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“هنالك أناس رائعون
نلتقيهم في الوقت الخطأ
و هنالك أناس هم رائعون
لأننا نلتقيهم في الوقت المناسب”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

“بدأت تضحك بشكل جنوني لدرجة دمعت معها عيناها ، وانسابت دموع الضحك على وجنتيها اللتين كانتا بالكاد قد جفتا من دموع الألم”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy