My cocoon becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.Jean-Dominique Bauby
There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court.Jean-Dominique Bauby
You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face. You can build castles in Spain, steal the Golden Fleece, discover Atlantis, realize your childhood dreams and adult ambitions.Jean-Dominique Bauby
Enough rambling. My main task now is to compose the first of these bedridden travel notes so that I shall be ready when my publisher's emissary arrives to take my dictation, letter by letter.Jean-Dominique Bauby
In my head I churn over every sentence ten times, delete a word, add an adjective, and learn my text by heart, paragraph by paragraph.Jean-Dominique Bauby
Through the frayed curtain at my window, a wan glow announces the break of day. My heels hurt, my head weighs a ton, and something like a giant invisible dive bell holds my whole body prisoner.Jean-Dominique Bauby
One day, I will go away. Depart into my childhood, slide into my birth, bound for the great journey into the inanimate.Jean-Dominique Bauby
You survive, but you survive with what is the equivalent of a devastating cerebral accident. As for your heart, well...Jean-Dominique Bauby
Other than my eye, two things aren't paralyzed, my memory and my imagination.Jean-Dominique Bauby
The door that the illness opened into time, space, beauty, love and loss.Jean-Dominique Bauby