My Grape Year Quotes

“Emotions didn’t follow rules, so they were scary and therefore suppressed.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Year

“had also learned that an unavoidable consequence of listening to my soul was making some people unhappy.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Year

“We humans need this, I thought. We need to let go of the routine of our everyday lives and just celebrate the mere fact of being alive. The French are awfully gifted at that.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Year

“The night was warm, and tiny stars began to light up the sky like sparks. I put my empty glass back on the table, and Franck followed suit. He swept me into the middle of the dancers, and we lost ourselves in the accordion music. He spun me around and around until the revelers surrounding us became a blur, and I felt like a small part of a much greater whole. Nobody in the crowd hung back on the sidelines. If they had no one to dance with, they danced anyway and were soon swept up into the frenzy of celebration. We humans need this, I thought. We need to let go of the routine of our everyday lives and just celebrate the mere fact of being alive. The French are awfully gifted at that.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Year

“That was the attitude of Franck’s whole family regarding their incredible warmth and hospitality. De rien. It’s nothing. De rien. It’s normal. It’s the Burgundian way of doing things.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Year

“L’appétit”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Year

“Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas.” The heart has reasons that reason does not recognize.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Year

“Why do you always drink your coffee out of a glass?” I asked. She poured herself a glass and sat down at the table with us. “That was the way my mother always drank it,” she said. “She always said that coffee tasted better from a glass than from a ceramic cup.” I took a sip of mine. I wasn’t sure if it was my imagination, but it did seem to taste different—clearer—more pure. I was always going to drink my coffee in glasses if given the opportunity, I decided, as well as buy my wine directly from the maker.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Year

“always nurtured a deep love affair with cheese. The sight of this cheese platter was enough to make me suspect that France was in fact my spiritual home.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Year