The Paris Hours Quotes

“Some things you cannot leave behind. Your history will pursue you doggedly across frontiers and over oceans. It will slip past the unsmiling border guards, fold itself invisibly into the pages of your passport, a silent, treacherous stowaway.”
― Alex George, The Paris Hours

“This man's music has become part of Souren's mornings, as essential as the sun rising over the rooftops of the city. The familiar melody offers him a moment of quiet grace, and this gives him strength for the day ahead. The pianist knows nothing of this, of course. He plays only for himself. Souren wonders how the arc of the man's own days is changed by creating such beauty each morning. He watches as the pianist makes his lonely way down the street. The man looks tired, defeated. He does not play for joy, thinks Souren. He plays for survival.”
― Alex George, The Paris Hours

“They call my country the land of the free, but I was born poor and black, and there wasn’t much that was free about that.”
― Alex George, The Paris Hours

“change who you are simply by climbing on a boat or boarding a train. Some things you cannot leave behind. Your history will pursue you doggedly across frontiers and over oceans. It will slip past the unsmiling border guards, fold itself invisibly into the pages of your passport, a silent, treacherous stowaway.”
― Alex George, The Paris Hours

“He remembered his mother once telling him that there were more than three hundred types of cheese made in France. Soured had solemnly replied that one day he would go there and try every one.
There were worse reasons to choose a place to live”
― Alex George, The Paris Hours

“The women would not be looking at him like this if he were carrying lilies, reflects Jean-Paul. Flowers have there own silent vocabulary. There are blooms for love, for friendship, for sorrow, and for joy. He inspect the roses he is carrying. Long-stemmed and elegant, they have been grown, selected, arranged, and purchased for a single, unambiguous purpose: to seduce.”
― Alex George, The Paris Hours

“The only place where you can regain lost paradises is in yourself”
― Alex George, The Paris Hours

“The only place where you can regain lost paradises”
― Alex George, The Paris Hours

“They call my country the land of the free, but I was born poor and black, and there wasn't much free about that .”
― Alex George, The Paris Hours