In Paris With You Quotes

“Il a le mal d'un siècle qui n'est pas le sien ;
Il se sent l'héritier amer d'un spleen ancien.”
― Clémentine Beauvais, Songe à la douceur

“being in love unsettles you internally; when someone steals your heart, they also steal your sense of gravity”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris with You

“I think it’s impossible
to deliberately set out to enjoy something it just happens
on its own and it’s only afterwards later on that I think to
myself that moment was important for me because in the
moment itself I’m not concentrating on it being important
because that would make me anxious
you know what I mean?”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You

“Did it really exist, that age? Seventeen!
It’s impossible, seventeen. It’s pure fiction.
It’s an age dreamed up to make old people believe
that they used to be adolescents.
Whereas in reality, it’s absolutely certain
that no one in the whole wide world
was ever seventeen.”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You

“that silence will seem to eugene like a warning, a foreshadowing of doom, as in a tragedy of old; a brief chill heralding the long dark winter cold”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You

“Eugene must return to the past so the present can move on. That's how life is sometimes. Memories, surging from the depths of a distant before, can turn your now to later.”
― Clémentine Beauvais, Songe à la douceur

“I don’t understand,” in a quavering, half-broken voice, a voice that devastates Tatiana; it’s the desperate, despairing I DON’T UNDERSTAND of someone who understands all too well, in fact, and what they understand is this; no one is safe; no one is protected from the attack which comes just like that, without warning, pitiless, merciless; and you are absolutely alone when the suffering begins”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris with You

“some people are so dazzled by the day that when the nigh comes, they just aren’t ready”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris with You

“J'étais à peine moi à l'époque”
― Clémentine Beauvais, Songe à la douceur

“Crazy, isn’t it? We must have been convinced,
or at least a little part of us must have believed,
that at fifteen years old we’d already discovered
our best friends forever, our immortal lovers.
Don’t you think it’s sweet how important it all seemed?”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You

“I didn’t build
a shell around my heart, not because I was unaware
of the dangers, but because I dared
to risk it all;”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You

“When someone steals your heart, they also steal your centre of gravity.”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You

“To be with her –
that was all …
all he yearned for and all he lacked.
To be with her until the sun turned black.”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You

“But trying not to think about something
is a battle lost in advance; your brain
will just keep asking you –
what was that thing again?”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You

“You can’t escape your mind.
Boredom is not a place you can just leave behind.”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You

“Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You

“Lost love doesn’t have to be a tragedy.
There’s not always enough material there for a story.”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You

“and I’m sure that
you, too, can brood and mope,
sometimes, about love affairs
that went wrong years ago.”
― Clémentine Beauvais, In Paris With You