Girl in the Afternoon Quotes

“I guess we are all pretending not to be sad for each other. *”
― Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

“Aimée had realized this, fully, with the death of her maman. That you could hate someone and love them and wish they were here and be grateful they were gone, all in the same instant.”
― Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

“Women, apparently, were the only ones made to pay for their sins. There”
― Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

“He wondered how many children a man could lose in a lifetime before he no longer wanted to go on living.”
― Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

“It reminded him that things were not always as they seemed, and that love was slippery and changeable. The”
― Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

“She’d seen hardship. No sense falling into it if you could just as easily pull yourself out. It”
― Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

“Better to be noticed for originality than not noticed at all,”
― Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

“There was freedom that women in the lower classes of Montmartre had, freedoms she was denied.”
― Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

“As she listened to him, she wondered if he believed all the things he said, or if he just said them to be liked. Last”
― Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

“The mistake she made was in thinking that this would be enough, filling her canvases, filling her mind, filling up time. It wasn’t. A part of her was restless and unsettled, expectant. Waiting, always, for something to happen. And”
― Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

“After a while, the silence became what they needed most. A form of communication more precious than their art, balanced tenderly and cautiously between them. There was an intimacy in it, a suspension of time like the moment right before a kiss. And it was this that they first fell in love with, the ability to be together and alone at the same time. *”
― Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris