Elizabeth Bard Quotes

#1. A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.

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#2. My inner control freak had taken the day off ... I had descended from the mountain of the perfect, into the valley of the possible, and was now on the happy shaded trail, dappled with sunlight, of the present. It was the most wonderful walk of my life.

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#3. In the three months since I'd moved to Paris, I hadn't been to a single party. I was eager to get dressed up and go somewhere, dying to talk to somebody other than the guy who sold me my zucchini.

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#4. In Paris the past is always with you: you look at it, walk over it, sit on it.

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#5. They weren't tears of sadness or even tears of joy. I was just overflowing. Like so many things since I'd been here, I didn't yet understand it, but I felt it.

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#6. He was still open to the magic of this place. I didn't know a lot of people who were open to magic at all.

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#7. That's the real reason why French women don't get fat: every day they make "petites" decisions that keep the larger weight loss struggle from ever having to begin.

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#8. The woman's face was like a stone tablet, as if the president of the chess club had wandered over to the Goth corner of the schoolyard and asked to touch a tongue piercing.

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#9. No better way to avoid making a decision than burying yourself in a big fat book. (p. 105).

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#10. People grow, but they don't change.

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#11. I was living "every girl's" dream. But I had yet to find my own passion, my personal project, the thing that would help make Paris mine.

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#12. I almost never let reality get in the way of a good story.

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#13. We've been here dozen of times since we met, but this precious month before the baby is born feels like a last first date. There's a different kind of romance beginning. We will never again be entirely alone in the world

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#14. Home can be something as vast as a country, as holy as a temple, or as simple as a cake.

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#15. It's simple: Women who pick at their food hate sex. Women who suck the meat off of lobster claws, order (and finish) dessert- these are the women who are going to rip your clothes off and come back for seconds.

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#16. A French portion is half of an American portion, and a French meal takes twice as long to eat. You do the math.

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#17. I live three thousand miles away from my mother. But no matter how far away, I'm still hers. I'm brave in the ways she's made me brave and scared in the ways she's made me scared. I'll never belong to anyone the way I belong to her.

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#18. If "Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about.

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#19. I watched the couples walking around the lake, 'Maybe it's the New Yorker in me. I'm too used to rushing around. But everyone here is so relaxed, it's like they're moving in slow motion.'

'Why should they rush? They're not going anywhere.

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#20. For the record, I'm not an indecisive person, and I'm not a coward. I just have a very detailed imaginary life, and it sometimes takes precedence over what's actually happening around me.

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