Belle de Jour > Quotes

“Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.”
― Belle de Jour, The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl

“Time is limited and some opportunities never repeat themselves.”
― Belle de Jour, The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl

“Holding your stomach in when your clothes are off is not fuckable. Slapping your ample behind and inviting him to ride the wobble is.”
― Belle de Jour

“In a world of twelve-years-olds in sexy boots and nans in sparkly mini-dresses, the surest way to tell the prostitute walking into a hotel at Heathrow is to look for the lady in the designer suit.”
― Belle de Jour

“in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!”
― Belle de Jour , Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl

“Having interests translates as confidence to do and be things on your own without expecting a man to do and be for you. And confidence is attractive. Not to mention independence.”
― Belle De Jour

“Why fantasize about what you already experience? I go to the written word for places and faces that I don't get at home. Hot people in hot climates. Sex acts I can hardly imagine. Porn is about the unachievable ... and, therefore, the inherently desirable.”
― Belle de Jour

“First the fact that the only items on open display seem to be tampons, breast pumps, and douches, making one feel as a female more soiled and wretched than even two thousand years of Catholic catechism could do.”
― Belle de Jour, The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl

“Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.”
― Belle de Jour, The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl

“C is for Cash Only. I don't take cards. Where would I put the swipe machine?”
― Belle de Jour, The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl

“London wasn't the first city I'd lived in, but it was certainly the largest. Anywhere else there is always the chance of seeing someone you know or, at the very least, a smiling face. Not here. Commuters crowd the trains, eager to outdo their fellow travelers in an escalating privacy war of paperbacks, headphones and newspapers. A woman next to me on the Northern Line on day held the Metro just inches from her face; it was only three stops later that I noticed she was not reading but crying. It was hard not to offer sympathy and harder still to not start crying myself.”
― Belle de Jour, The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl

“Escape Hatches - A Brief Consideration... North America. Pros: charming accent might attract general goodwill, free drinks. Cons: am frightened by the concept of Texas.”
― Belle de Jour, Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl

“Something that did not happen to me broke my heart. That was how I knew I
was capable of feeling.”
― Belle de Jour, Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl

“Hold on tightly - let go lightly”
― Belle de Jour, The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl