A Place in Normandy Quotes

“They're barbarians. That food! Wherever you go, the English try to give you a first course that's either a bad tomato or half an avocado stuffed with little canned shrimp and mayonnaise," Teddy was complaining.

"And you ask why England has remained an island!" Margaret proclaimed rhetorically.”
― Nicholas Kilmer, A Place in Normandy

“Women’s sticking together, I complained to myself, is the curse that forms the cornerstone of civilization. And you can't fool them, which is another way of saying the same thing. But you have to try, which accounts for the origin of language.”
― Nicholas Kilmer, A Place in Normandy

“In France, the customer is never right.”
― Nicholas Kilmer, A Place in Normandy

“Never mind beautiful," she replied. "Beautiful is always someone else’s.”
― Nicholas Kilmer, A Place in Normandy

“[I]mbuvable is a term used by some in France to characterize persons whom no one can stand to be around.”
― Nicholas Kilmer, A Place in Normandy