Top 67 Kathleen Tessaro Quotes
#1. If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.
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#3. Young men seemed to collect by her side, ready with drinks and conversation. She tanned quickly and easily, her delicate limbs oiled and gleaming. In the evening, she made the most of her new tan in low-cut clinging evening dresses in white or black.
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#4. Around her the tables were filling with people, tourists planning their next stop over a coffee, businessmen meeting for luncheon, well-heeled women taking a break from their sprees, leaning in to gossip with one another, shopping bags piled at their feet.
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#5. This, Mrs Munroe, is the scent of intoxication and desire. The perfume of seduction.
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#6. What would you like to do with it?' he pressed. Grace thought a moment. 'Live, Monsieur Tissot. I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.' He
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#7. He was uncannily skilled at dissecting hidden meaning behind every interaction.
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#8. Life is, after all, a sensual experience. Our senses have the power to truly transport us but also to ground us. Make us human.
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#10. They seemed to be removed from her by more than just language. French people leading French lives. Why was it that anything you couldn't readily understand became mysterious and glamorous?
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#11. The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.
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#12. Something of Eva's disturbing beauty, slow-burning sensuality and razor-sharp mind was reflected in it.
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#13. As time went on, Eva grew to respect and even admire the eccentricities of Madame Zed. For example, rather than adapt to her surroundings, she transformed them.
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#14. Men are forced to resort to ridiculous displays of bravado in front of women.
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#15. Curiosity is the most delightful of all human characteristics
"I see. No men in her life then?"
-"Not unless you count Jack Daniels and Johnny Walkers
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#16. I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.
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#17. He was in love with aspects of her. Andre wasn't capable of expressing himself like other people. He dreamt in smells, he heard music in colours.
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#18. Too much reading is a bad habit. No one likes a girl who squints.
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#19. There's an art to life. Some people have talent for it. A boundless hope illuminates them. Where others are vague and tentative, they have only sharp, clear edges. Energy soars; lights burn brighter when they enter a room.
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#20. If you cannot fit into the mould, then you must step out of it,
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#21. There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another
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#22. I'm an exceptional artist. Trapped in the body of man with no musical
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#23. Climbing the steps to the hotel, Grace paused, taking a long look at Paris, in all its shimmering, enigmatic elegance, wearing the nigh as a beautiful woman wears diamonds.
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#24. He didn't know what it was like to live between memory and regret with nothing to numb it.
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#25. What could be more beautiful than the fact that love exists in a random universe?
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#26. After all, if I started confiding my innermost problems to someone, I'd have to do something about them. And I'm not ready for that yet.
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#27. She tore off a piece of baguette; it was both crusty and soft, still warm in the centre. It was amazing how something so simple, so basic could be this delicious.
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#29. Paulette shook her head and sighed. In her world Grace had failed to meet the responsibility of her own beauty. This was not just a waste but a sin.
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#30. We forgive not because it's easy or the right thing to do, but that the choice to forgive is in itself powerful. It's an affirmation, a willingness to take life on life's terms. And a privilege that no one can take from you. It
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#31. To me, chance isn't random. The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see the pattern unfold.
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#32. But Paris had been designed. Here, historical landmarks appeared graciously; evenly spaced for maximum aesthetic impact. One had only to follow from one to another to reach any destination, including the Left Bank.
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#34. The world was full of collectors, scouring the earth for pieces of themselves.
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#35. I believe it's a privilege, madam. One that's earned through a certain amount of courage and adversity.
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#36. Father Paul was at the start of life. His glassy convictions needed protection. They waited patiently until he too, succumbed to the unbearable unevenness of God's will, the sureness of his grace, the darkness of his mercy.
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#37. Some day you will have a nemesis,' Madame warned bitterly. 'It's not easy, you know. Someone who has the ability to do everything you wish you could, but with greater ease, style, success.
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#38. Thing is,' Sis confided, 'all the important people here look ordinary and the really fancy ones are usually broke or on the make. I'll tell you, you're in an upside-down world now,' she said, shaking her head. 'Takes a while, but you'll get used to it.
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#39. I knew her a long time. The truth was we both had certain expectations of each other. In the end, I suppose they were too high.
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#40. People take for granted what is in fact an art. To live well, to live comfortably by one's own standards takes a certain maturity of spirit, exceptional character, truly refined taste, and - ' 'And money.
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#41. In every book she'd ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden their resolve.
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#42. I thought I could change my character as easily as I could change my coat.
But I've been searching for the right one ever since.
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#43. That's what fashion is, really. A way of renegotiating the terms that life deals you. When a woman changes her hair what she's really saying to fate is, no. I refuse to be defined by those terms.
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#44. It could be argued that all perfume is born out of shame; a self-consciousness of our natural odour.
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#45. The warm humid air of New York clung to the night, unwilling to relinquish its suffocating hold. And yet to Eva, the city had an underlying hum of possibility; a constant forward motion that promised, no matter what, that change was on its way.
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#47. When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see
there are no "good" people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others" ...
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#48. she exuded the air of a woman used to spending her days glowing brightly at the centre of her own, personal solar system.
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#49. ...I have to have some answers."
"And what if there are no answers?"
She held her ground. "Then at least I will have asked the questions.
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#50. Love is self-serving - we do all sorts of things for our own comfort and call it love. But revenge is an intimate thing, don't you think? Would you be willing to enact another persons vengeance?
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#51. It was a scent that lacked coyness, made no concessions to charm. Like standing on the edge of a great and terrifying cliff, it was shocking, beautiful, sublime.
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#52. Eva was assigned to learn her duties from Rita Crane, an older woman of indeterminate age and one of the world's most unsuccessful secret drinkers.
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#54. There was a whole vocabulary of suffering, eloquent in its wordlessness, which gave voice to all the things she couldn't do or say.
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#55. Fragrance is an aspiration. A goal. Not just a tool of seduction but of power and status.
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#56. Mass was like grand opera, a magic show with the most expensive props in town. And faith, a sleight of hand trick, in which one was both the magician and the audience; the deceiver and the deceived. Still, who could resist a good magic trick?
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#57. Innocence, like virginity, is more fun to lose than to keep.' 'Both are quite expensive, sir.
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#58. What a shock it had been when she began to grow invisible to men and they no longer registered her. How humiliating to discover time had abducted her favorite version of herself and replaced it with a saggy middle-aged woman instead.
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#59. Very few of us relate to what it's like to be a hero. But everyone understands what it's like to fail.
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#60. Some of us, no matter how hard we try, aren't meant to lead ordinary lives. Fate finds us. Gives us a shove.
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#62. Because she was connected to you. Because even despite her absence, she existed and you existed. You are a fact in each other's lives in the same way that the sea exists even if you never go to the seaside.
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#63. She inhaled again. 'You made it rain,' she said softly, delighted.
'Everyone needs a respite from the sun.
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#64. Please tell me it's going to rain today, Francois.'
'Ah!' he smiled. (This was obviously familiar territory.) 'I regret to inform you that the forecast calls for nothing but sunshine.'
'Relentless sunshine,' she corrected him.
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#65. An uninterrupted view of the Paris skyline was spread out before her, like a giant landscape painting rendered in shades of blue-grey, charcoal and purple-tinted umber; the dreamy palette of shifting shadows at twilight. The blue hour.
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#66. A young woman on the cusp of her sexual awakening is a powerful creature.' She
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#67. Dorsey was out of her league. When a woman like Kay Waverley took you on over a man, you were done for. It was the scandal of the season and all of Monte Carlo agreed; poor little Dorsey wasn't handling it well.
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