Karen Wheeler > Quotes

“But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.”
― Karen Wheeler, Tout Sweet: Hanging Up my High Heels for a New Life in France

“Only eat dessert if it’s amazing.’ And if it’s from a factory, it probably isn’t.”
― Karen Wheeler, The Marie Antoinette Diet: How French Women Eat Cake but Don't Gain Weight

“I like food, I never say ‘no’ to dessert and I’m fond of a glass of wine with dinner. Since moving to the land of the long lunch, I had indulged freely in all the croissants, patisserie and fine red wines that France had to offer. Much of the social life in France revolves around eating enormous meals in friends’ houses, while in the winter months it is easy to fall into the trap of closing the shutters, lighting the fire and cooking a calorie-laden dinner, before collapsing on the sofa with a glass of wine for the rest of the evening.”
― Karen Wheeler, The Marie Antoinette Diet: How French Women Eat Cake but Don't Gain Weight

“The need to burn some excess calories is another motivation: unloved is one thing; fat and unloved is not a good look.”
― Karen Wheeler, Tout Sweet: Hanging Up my High Heels for a New Life in France

“you have to remove things from your life to let new stuff in”
― Karen Wheeler, Tout Sweet: Hanging Up my High Heels for a New Life in France

“In France, we say that the life lived in secret is the best life.”
― Karen Wheeler, Tout Sweet: Hanging Up my High Heels for a New Life in France