“She’s Parisian, which is to say she’s melancholy. Her mood responds to the changing colours of her city. She can feel a sudden surge of sorrow or even hope for no reason at all. In the blink of an eye, all those lost memories and smells come flooding back, reminding her of loved ones who are no longer there. And time passing by.”
― How To Be Parisian: Wherever You Are
― How To Be Parisian: Wherever You Are
“It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It’s the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.”
― Night Film
― Night Film
“We are so customed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.
A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.”
― The Goldfinch
A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.”
― The Goldfinch
“Those who deserve respect are given it freely. If one must demand such a thing, he’ll never truly command it. I am your daughter, not your horse, sir.”
― Stalking Jack the Ripper
― Stalking Jack the Ripper
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