My Paris Dream Quotes

“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

“Nothing is real that is not first imagined.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

“We set off to walk my favorite route, two American flâneurs in Paris, traversing the Place de la Concorde, the Seine, winding through Saint-Germain on backstreets like the rue de Bourgogne and the rue Barbet de Jouy and up the boulevard Raspail. I wanted to buy linens and”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

“Yves St. Laurent understood better than anyone that style was not simply about appearance. Style was about gestures, experiences, and taste. Style was about context. Style told a story: It began with a time and a place.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

“I found the isolation of this expatriate life pathetic. Even after years of living in Paris, my godmother, Sandy, was no different. She would wave away my suggestions that she socialize with Parisians. “I don’t speak French!” she would say with a shrug. “They aren’t interested in anyone who doesn’t speak their language.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

“Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.” I jotted down all those Paris quotes from Appleton, Emerson, Hemingway, and Henry Miller”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

“knew she resented me, but I lacked the maturity and experience to see how resentment could fester and become vindictive.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine