Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside, she’s covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary — and terribly elegant.
Muriel Barbery, “L’eleganza del riccio”, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2007, p. 137.
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Une idée de la sorcière Vianne Rocher
