My Grape Paris Quotes

“To love or have loved. That is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Paris

“I lived with crushing regrets my whole life because I wasn’t brave enough to claim what I truly wanted. If you can learn one thing from an old woman, ma petite mademoiselle, learn that.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Paris

“lived with crushing regrets my whole life because I wasn’t brave enough to claim what I truly wanted. If you can learn one thing from an old woman, ma petite mademoiselle, learn that.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Paris

“But life never has been simple, Laura, for anyone. It never will be. That is not the nature of life—or of people.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Paris

“The best talent a cook can possess is patience,” she said. After some thought, she added, “The same goes for life, I suppose. Patience is truly the most useful and undervalued quality a person can possess.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Paris

“Florent has just breached one of the unspoken rules of my family. Family do those things for each other simply because it’s family. To charge for it…I still can’t believe it.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Paris

“Maybe the difference between niceness and kindness is the first is an automatic response, whereas the second is a choice. If that is true, kindness has infinitely more value.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Paris

“When you’re able to help somebody else in the future—pass on some of your things to them. That’s how I figure it should work. We help each other when we are able, and even though you don’t necessarily pay back the person who helped you, you pass on that help to the next person who needs it.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Paris

“There is such a thing as being too compliant, and sometimes it is impossible to make myself and others happy.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Paris

“Ni vu, ni connu.” Nathanael put a finger against his lips. I didn’t see anything, so I can’t know anything.”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Paris

“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong, nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Moveable Feast”
― Laura Bradbury, My Grape Paris