19 quotes found
“Magic to be its best must be unexpected.”
“I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive.”
“Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?”
“It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.”
“its better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least youllfly before you fall”
“it’s better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you’llfly before you fall”
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
“Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.”
“I am a mother and mothers dont have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.”
“She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other.”
“We are all changed by this war, Soph. Daniel is your brother now that Rachel is ... gone. Truly your brother. And this baby, he or she is innocent of ... his or her creation.''It's hard to forget,'...”
“My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me oftenin the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new...”
“Vianne knelt down beside Sarah, she felt for a pulse and found none. The silence turned sour, thick; all Vianne could think about was the sound of this child's laughter and how empty the world woul...”
“Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really?”
“If I had told him the truth long ago, or had danced and drunk and sung more, maybe he would have seen me instead of a dependable, ordinary mother. He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I alw...”
“... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.”
“I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.All alo...”
“We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow," he says after a minute. Then, "Wow," again.I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.”
“I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.”
