The Paris Effect Quotes

“People would never say, “Wow, you’re so fat, how do even you fit into a chair!” But skinniness is okay to remark upon. Worse, they often add, “You’re so lucky to be thin,” as if thinness were an accident, as if thinness were a quality you either have or you don’t. But there’s nothing accidental about thinness. Nope. Not in twenty-first-century America.”
― K.S.R. Burns, Rules for the Perpetual Diet

“I would like to disagree. I would like to argue. But that’s the problem with the dead. You can’t fight with them, you can’t reason with them, you can’t prove them wrong or yourself right, beg them to choose you, to stay with you, to love you more than death. They are gone. They have left only a big black ugly gash where their beautiful vibrant selves used to be. They no longer give a shit.”
― K.S.R. Burns, Rules for the Perpetual Diet

“My mother used to say you should eat like a king in the morning, a queen at noon, and a pauper at night”
― K.S.R. Burns, Rules for the Perpetual Diet

“You don’t just pick up another best friend at the corner drugstore. You can’t order one off the Internet. You get one per lifetime, if you’re lucky.”
― K.S.R. Burns, The Paris Effect

“My favorite way to begin a book is to let the book decide, to let the book say, Here is where you need to be, here is where you belong. Because books can always be depended on. Books are more reliable than people. Don’t shake your head. You know it’s true. “Planning”
― K.S.R. Burns, The Paris Effect

“Paris assumes that if you are not in Paris, whatever, whoever, wherever you are is legitimate cause for dissatisfaction. Because if you are not in Paris, you are nowhere worth being. Because—mais oui!—in Paris life is bigger, better, and more beautiful.”
― K.S.R. Burns, Rules for the Perpetual Diet