The Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George

Author:Nina George [George, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

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Naturally, Marie-Jeanne kept all the things she found inside books in another chest.

Torn-off tickets for the cinema in Cavaillon.

A shopping list: “Chestnuts. Matches. Magnifying glass.”

A postcard from Venice.

Once, she even found the first lines of a letter: “I send this thought to you on a night when the stars are falling from the sky. I don’t know your face. I don’t know your name, and I won’t tell you mine. The day we stand face-to-face, the day we touch, we will know we are the ones.” It had been inserted into Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil.

Simone Weil…The philosopher, she thought. Géraldine Châtelet’s favorite author. Who was she writing to? Why is love so tentative? Why does it hurt both when it’s not there and when it’s there?

“Petitpa?”

“Hmm?”

“Why is love so hard?”

“Well…” Francis pulled up a three-legged stool. “You know, it’s…” He sighed and tried again. “Love is. That’s really the only thing we know for sure.”

“What is it?”

“Just that: It is. That we can say for sure. Love is. It exists. It is here. That much is certain. We don’t know anything more about it and we cannot describe it. Do you see what I mean?”

“Er, I don’t think I do actually,” Marie-Jeanne said.

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