Christopher

“He called him (it was always a man) a flâneur. “The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for the fish,” he wrote. “His passion and his profession is to wed the crowd. . . . To be away from home, but to feel oneself everywhere at home.”
― Elaine Sciolino, The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs

“The desire to come apart irrevocably will always be as strong as, if not stronger than, the drive to establish oneself.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett

“Pamplemousse, it was true, is a pretty great word, especially as a replacement for grapefruit, which, when you think about it, is sort of like saying “poodledog.”
― Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language

“Does anyone really think that French teenagers, per the academy’s diktat, are going to trade out sexting for sending textos pornographiques? It’s”
― Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language