Elizabeth Bard Quotes

#1. What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

#2. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

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

Elizabeth Bard

#4. 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

Elizabeth Bard

#5. Real love ... true love ... the kind that could last a lifetime would require a guy who loved God more than life, a guy who could lead her

Karen Kingsbury

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

Elizabeth Bard

#7. Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.

Rumi

#8. I keep my eyes on his bedspread - blue-and-white plaid, very male - and try to remember how Isla-of-the-past would have fainted if she could see Isla-of-the-present.

Stephanie Perkins

#9. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

#10. The African villager with a solar powered smartphone has more access to more information than Louis XIV in the halls of Versailles.

Walter Russell Mead

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

Elizabeth Bard

#12. Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.

Garth Ennis

#13. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

#14. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

#15. Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.

Philippe Blenkiron

#16. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

#17. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

#18. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

#19. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

#20. Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

Rabindranath Tagore

#21. I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.

Pete Rose

#22. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

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

Elizabeth Bard

#24. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

#25. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

#26. 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.

Elizabeth Bard

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

Elizabeth Bard

#28. Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

Rumi

#29. It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted.

Lil' Wayne

#30. Sometimes you should be afraid of what hides in the dark,"

Perfect Alpha: Hibernation

Wade Belknap Jr

#31. Yes, that's right ... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Elizabeth Bard

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

Elizabeth Bard

#34. Fang. I had to do some thinking about him.
Me. I had some thinking to do about me too.

James Patterson