“… as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”
Source: Blue Eyes, Black Hair
Quotes from book
Blue Eyes, Black Hair
Marguerite Duras
Original title
Les Yeux bleus cheveux noirs
(French, 1986)
Blue Eyes, Black Hair is a 1986 novel by the French writer Marguerite Duras. It tells the story of a couple who meet by chance in a small vacation town. The man is homosexual and has recently fallen in love with a man with blue eyes and black hair. After meeting the woman at a cafe, he pays the woman to come to his room so that he can look at her, presumably in order to learn something about women or love.
