A review by coley_reads
Papillon by Henri Charrière

Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.

 

“Your Honor I want to say I am truly innocent, that I’m a victim of a police frame-up.” 

“Before I was led away, I hard a voice cry out, ‘Don’t worry, baby, I’ll follow you there.’ It was my good and true Nenette shouting her love. And those of my underworld friends who were in the courtroom applauded. They knew the truth about this murder and this was their way of showing they were proud of me for not squealing.” 

“The first thing to do was to make contact with another con who wanted to break out.” 

“Every night, and even parts of the day, I wandered through Paris as if my escape were already a fact: I would escape and I would return to Paris.” 

“The movie of my life unwound before me; my childhood in a family full of love – educated, mannerly, noble; the flowers in the field, the murmuring of the streams, the taste of the nuts, peaches and plums that our garden produced in quantity; the perfume of the mimosa which bloomed by our front door each spring; the outside of our house, and the inside, filled with my family’s special movements….. It was the projection of a magic lantern brought to life by my subconscious, filling with emotion this night of waiting for the leap into the great unknown.”