Paris for One and Other Stories Quotes

“I realized pretty quickly I couldn't marry a man without a bookshelf.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“You just destroy the thing you love by weighing it down.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“I had mistaken feeling for feeling unhappy.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“How many times had she wanted to have this conversation? How many times had she rehearsed all the things she wanted to say to him?”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“You don’t ever do something just because it makes you feel good?’ The assistant shrugs. ‘Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“You came for a romantic weekend to Paris. In your flip-flops.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“And as she walks, in a city of strangers, her nostrils filled with the scent of street food, her ears filled with an unfamiliar language, she feels something unexpected wash through her. She feels connected, alive.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“But you can tell so much about someone from what they wear.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“And everything you say sounds better because it’s in French. I might just have to speak in a fake French accent for the rest of my life.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“It’s a pang of discomfort but not of pain.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“He feels a brief pang that something so major has happened in her life without him knowing.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“You don’t ever do something just because it makes you feel good?”
The assistant shrugs. “Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“She sits with her lips almost on his and traces the shape of his face with her fingertips”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“She sit's with her lips almost on his and traces the shape of his face with her fingertips.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“You just destroy the things you love. By weighing it down. Right? page 77”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“café a la piel del hombre, tratando de decidir cuál era más oscuro. Su tono iba más allá de un Werther’s Original. Más allá de una esposa de futbolista. Este era un moreno nivel televisión de horario diurno.”
― Jojo Moyes, París para uno y otras historias

“Nowhere is far...You are in Paris! - Fabien”
― Jojo Moyes , Paris for One and Other Stories

“And yet something—perhaps an English predisposition not to appear rude, not to make a fuss, even if it does end up in your untimely murder—propels her forward.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“...tell me...the best thing that has ever happened to you.'
'The best? Oh, I'm kind of hoping it hasn't happened yet.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“Come on. You have to live so that you have something to write about.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“Son,' he says as Fabien turns to leave. 'Let her go. Don't take it all so seriously, eh?”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“He stops before a perfect little painting in which she has pictured her spine as a cracked column. There is something about the grief in her eyes that won’t let him look away. That is suffering, he thinks. He thinks about how long he’s been moping about Sandrine, and it makes him feel embarrassed, self-indulgent. Theirs, he suspects, was not an epic love story like Diego and Frida’s.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories