Kristine

“Bookshops made her anxious. Each volume was like an eager animal at the pound, striving for attention, hoping for a home. “Take me, take me,” they called out, until the chorus grew so loud she had to turn and flee.”
― Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

“You might do things with the notion that you’re helping others for the sake of helping them, but what if that’s yet another strategy of yours to “get” something, and the only reason it’s so draining is because it never quite gets you the thing you’re really after?”
― Gary John Bishop, Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life

“When fortune smiles, you immediately start to worry about how it will end. Why not enjoy the moment?”
― Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

“It sounds so much better in French.” “Most things do.”
― Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel