“Romance is showing my new husband the places and things that mean the most to me.I can't help it if some of those places and things are in France.”

“Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don’t you think?”

“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.”

“And the thing about falling in love is that no matter where you are when it happens, you can't help but to color those moments with beauty, even if you're in a location of ugliness. He made what would have been a place of nightmares into a place to dream.”

“It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.”

“Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart”