Pierre-Jules Renard (pronounced [pjɛʁ ʒyl ʁənaʁ]; 22 February 1864 – 22 May 1910) was a French novelist, playwright, and diarist. He was a member of the Académie Goncourt and is acclaimed for Poil de carotte (Carrot Top, 1894), a bitterly ironical account of his own childhood. His other famous works...
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
As terrible as the truth was, there was something restful about it.
—Bree Despain in The Dark Divine