K.S.R. Burns > Quotes

“People would never say, “Wow, you’re so fat, how do even you fit into a chair!” But skinniness is okay to remark upon. Worse, they often add, “You’re so lucky to be thin,” as if thinness were an accident, as if thinness were a quality you either have or you don’t. But there’s nothing accidental about thinness. Nope. Not in twenty-first-century America.”
― K.S.R. Burns, Rules for the Perpetual Diet

“I would like to disagree. I would like to argue. But that’s the problem with the dead. You can’t fight with them, you can’t reason with them, you can’t prove them wrong or yourself right, beg them to choose you, to stay with you, to love you more than death. They are gone. They have left only a big black ugly gash where their beautiful vibrant selves used to be. They no longer give a shit.”
― K.S.R. Burns, Rules for the Perpetual Diet

“My mother used to say you should eat like a king in the morning, a queen at noon, and a pauper at night”
― K.S.R. Burns, Rules for the Perpetual Diet

“My favorite way to begin a book is to let the book decide, to let the book say, Here is where you need to be, here is where you belong. Because books can always be depended on. Books are more reliable than people. Don’t shake your head. You know it’s true. “Planning”
― K.S.R. Burns, The Paris Effect

“I never thought that one day I'd be writing novels, much less novels taking place in Paris. As a girl I dreamed of traveling to the City of Light and when I finally did get to spend significant time there (not by running away from home, as Amy did, but it was still a big adventure), I found that it was just as fabulous as I'd always known it would be. I also found that Paris has some not-so-fabulous aspects, as every city does! It's this balance of "romantic dream versus gritty reality" that I've tried to convey in my books. Most of all, I aim to make my stories fun to read, yet not entirely fluffy, with a little bit of wisdom thrown in.”
― K.S.R. Burns

“Paris assumes that if you are not in Paris, whatever, whoever, wherever you are is legitimate cause for dissatisfaction. Because if you are not in Paris, you are nowhere worth being. Because—mais oui!—in Paris life is bigger, better, and more beautiful.”
― K.S.R. Burns, Rules for the Perpetual Diet

“You don’t just pick up another best friend at the corner drugstore. You can’t order one off the Internet. You get one per lifetime, if you’re lucky.”
― K.S.R. Burns, The Paris Effect