Paula McLain Quotes

Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.

Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.

The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.

Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that...I love Paris.

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

Paris is so beautiful. Mr. President, you should really think about going there sometime.

Paris ain't much of a town.

I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as possible.

Ever since I visited Paris when I was younger, the sappy side of me really wanted to write a song about it someday.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.

Paris is my favorite place in the world. I've never been there, at all... But I wanna live there, even though I've never been.

I like Paris. My problem is I don't like Parisians.