J.P. Monninger > Quotes

“It is the last great minute before he walks into your life, but you don't know that yet, can't know. Later, though, you will try to imagine where he was in this exact instant, when he had turned and started to travel toward you, you to him, and how the world around both of you took no notice. Your life would not be the same, but that was all waiting, up in the air, all fate and chance and inevitability.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Life doesn't happen someplace in the future. You said that. You said life happens here and now, and it's a fool's bargain to let something good go now in the hope of something better at a later date.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Nothing is always. Nothing in the universe is always.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“You know where the real prison is? It's in your mind. It's in your head.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“If I had six lives, I would want to spend them with you. Every last one.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“We all think we have one more good day, but maybe we don't.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Hast du schon mal den Spruch gehört, dass Bücher Orte sind, die man besucht...und wenn man Leute kennenlernt, die dieselben Bücher gelesen haben, dann ist es so, als wäre man am selben Ort gewesen? Wir wissen etwas über den anderen, weil er in derselben Welt gewesen ist wie wir. Wir wissen, wofür er lebt.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“So I made promises to myself, and one was to see as much of the world as I could, to experience as much as I could as fully as I could.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“It's a fool's bargain to let something good go now in the hope of something better at a later date.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Maybe it's not the most convnient set of circumstances, but life is always full of glitches, right?”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Liebe findet uns, durchfließt uns, zieht weiter.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“He is the kindest, gentlest man I have ever met, I'm so mad about him I don't know what to do with myself. Honestly, I don't. I keep telling myself this is nutty, this can't be happening, but then he does something else, something so sweet and thoughtful that it knocks me over again.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Und du bist der coole Außenseiter, der sich in seinem eigenen Mythos suhlt." "Den Spruch finde ich gut: Ich suhle mich in meinem eigenen Mythos. Siehst du? Du hast Potential.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Hältst du mich für einen Gentleman?"
"Ich halte dich für alles andere als geistreich.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“I'm falling for you. I know it's a cliché, but you take my breath away. You do. I don't know if we would have been perfect, but I was willing to try. I didn't see getting together with you as the end to anything. I saw it as a beginning. An exciting one.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Das ist ein Balztanz, um dich kennenzulernen. Es ist nämlich so: Ich mag dich. Du hast mir von Anfang an gefallen. Wenn ich Federn hätte, würde ich sie aufstellen und rumstolzieren, um dir mein Interesse zu zeigen.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Love is not static; love does not divide. What love we find in this world is coming toward us and traveling away from us simultaneously. To say we find love is a misuse of the word fine. Love finds us, passes through us, continues. We cannot find it any more than we can find air or water, we cannot live without either thing any more than we can live without love. Love is essential and as common as bread. if you look for it, you will see it everywhere, and you will never be without it.”
― J P Monninger

“This had happened. That's what I told myself. I had been played for a fool, and I wasn't the first woman to believe a man's lies, nor would I be the last, but this counted for a lesson learned.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“You said life happens here and now, and it’s a fool’s bargain to let something good go now in the hope of something better at a later date.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“cognac at Les Deux Magots,”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“They say you can never leave Paris; that it must leave you if it chooses to go.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“A book is a companion, though. You can read it in a special place, like on a train to Amsterdam, then you carry it home and you chuck it on a shelf, and then years later you remember that feeling you had on the train when you were young. It’s like a little island in time. If you love the book, you can give it to someone else. And you can discover it over and over, and”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“We’ve been to Paris now,” Jack said. “Some couples, they wait their entire lives and they never get to Paris.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Travel sheds skin, and it takes time at home to grow it back.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Great love inevitably carries with it great loss.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“To understand the world, you needed to see the world.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“What’s the opposite of a romantic? I’ve always wondered.” “An accountant, I guess. A person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“You can’t fence things in or out. Not really. Not for long.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“learned that love is not static; love does not divide. What love we find in this world is coming toward us and traveling away from us simultaneously. To say we find love is a misuse of the word find. Love finds us, passes through us, continues. We cannot find it any more than we can find air or water; we cannot live without either thing any more than we can live without love. Love is essential and as common as bread. If you look for it, you will see it everywhere, and you will never be without it.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You

“Na klar! Wusstest du das nicht?"
"Welche Waffe bevorzugst du denn?" "Heckenscheren."
"Heckenscheren? Und warum?"
"Weil ich sie für unterschätzt halte."
"Du bist die ganze Zeit knapp davor, mich tierisch zu nerven, weißt du das? Du kriegst immer noch gerade so die Kurve.”
― J.P. Monninger, The Map That Leads to You