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“Je ne regrette rein.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“Je suis à toi.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué.

I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness.”
― Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes

“On June 23, 1942, there was a group of French Jews in a German prison, on Polish soil. The first person I took was close to the door, his mind racing, then reduced to pacing, then slowing down, slowing down....

Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each would that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear.

I took them all away, and if there was a time I needed distraction, this was it. In complete desolation, I looked at the world above. I watched the sky as it turned from silver to gray to the color of rain. Even the clouds were trying to get away.

Sometimes I imagined how everything looked above those clouds, knowing without question that the sun was blond, and the endless atmosphere was a giant blue eye.

They ere French, they were Jews, and they were you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.”
― James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia

“Người Việt Nam đ�� ra là t�� động biết s�� ma, s�� mơ thấy lửa, s�� gò má cao, s�� nốt ruồi �� tuyến l��, s�� ăn thịt chó đầu tháng, s�� ăn thịt vịt đầu năm, s�� hương không uốn, s�� pháo không n��, s�� năm hạn, s�� tuổi xung, s�� sao Thái Bạch, vân vân và vân vân.

Người Pháp không s�� vu vơ như vậy. Người Pháp gọi đó là mê tín d�� đoan. Nhưng người Pháp học cấp một đã s�� dụng trôi chảy các thuật ng��: thất nghiệp, tr�� cấp xã hội, lương tối thiểu, tiền thuê nhà, tiền tr�� góp, tiền bảo hiểm ô tô, hợp đồng làm việc ngắn hạn, dài hạn, thời gian th�� thách, thu�� thu nhập, thu�� th�� trạch, thu�� ng�� cư, thu�� vô tuyến truyền hình, thu�� giá tr�� gia tăng...Người nước ngoài �� Pháp còn s�� dụng trôi chảy thêm một s�� thuật ng�� khác: th�� cư trú tạm thời, th�� cư trú vĩnh viễn, th�� lao động, h�� sơ t�� nạn, h�� sơ quốc tịch, h�� sơ đoàn t�� gia đình, h�� sơ xin tr�� cấp...”
― �ճ��ận, Paris 11 tháng 8

“The French expression 'cul-de-sac' describes what the Baudelaire orphans found when they reached the end of the dark hallway, and like all French expressions, it is most easily understood when you translate each French word into English. The word 'de,' for instance is a very common French world, I would be certain that 'de' means 'of.' The word 'sac' is less common, but I can fairly certain that it means something like 'mysterious circumstances.' And the word 'cul' is such a rare French word that I am forced to guess at its translation, and my guess is that in this case it would mean 'At the end of the dark hallway, the Baudelaire children found an assortment,' so that the expression 'cul-de-sac' here means 'At the end of the dark hallway, the Baudelaire children found an assortment of mysterious circumstances.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

“Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling.

“Awful,�� a girl said.

“En �ڰ�����ç������,�� Madame O’Malley replied. “En �ڰ�����ç������.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The West is a civilization that has survived all the prophecies of its collapse with a singular stratagem. Just as the bourgeoisie had to deny itself as a class in order to permit the bourgeoisification of society as a whole, from the worker to the baron; just as capital had to sacrifice itself as a wage relation in order to impose itself as a social relation—becoming cultural capital and health capital in addition to finance capital; just as Christianity had to sacrifice itself as a religion in order to survive as an affective structure—as a vague injunction to humility, compassion, and weakness; so the West has sacrificed itself as a particular civilization in order to impose itself as a universal culture. The operation can be summarized like this: an entity in its death throes sacrifices itself as a content in order to survive as a form.”
― The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection

“Je t'aime tant, je ne peux pas trouver la fin de mon amour pour toi
(I love you so thar I can't find the end of my love for you)”
― Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez, Poemas y canciones para el mal de amores Volumen1

“Je ne peux être juste pour les livres qui traitent de la femme en tant que femme... Mon idée c'est que tous, aussi bien hommes que femmes, qui que nous sayons, nous devons être considérés comme d'êtres humaines.”
― Dorothy Parker

“It was not the way Curve smelled that Colin liked - not exactly. It was the way the air smelled just as Lindsey began to jog away from him. The smell of perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage. What Colin liked about Curve was not its smell on the skin but its sillage, the fruity sweet smell of its leaving.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I started going over the lines in my head for this French play I’m in at school. I play a rabbit called Janot Lapin, who’s the leader of a group of farm animals. It’s not the most interesting play in the universe, but we only know three verb tenses so far so we didn’t have a lot of choices. There’s this one scene where I’m really hungry because the landowners aren’t feeding us, and I keep saying, “J’ai faim.�� In case you don’t know, that means “I’m hungry,�� but it really means “I have hunger.�� That’s what real French people say. I think it’s neat how French people have hunger, but they aren’t hungry like Americans are. I mean, it’s a lot easier to try not to have something than to try not to be it.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self

“You’ll be reading the breakfast menu without me before you know it.��

Hmm, maybe I don’t want to learn French”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Certaines choses que Napoléon dit des femmes, plusieurs discussiions sur le mérite des romans à la mode sous son règne lui donnèrent alors, pour la première fois, quelques idées que tout autre jeune home de son age aurait eues depuis longtemps.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“I know of no other place that is so fascinating yet so frustrating, so aware of the world and its own place within it but at the same time utterly insular. A country touched by nostalgia, with a past so great - so marked by brilliance and achievement - that French people today seem both enriched and burdened by it. France is like a maddening, moody lover who inspires emotional highs and lows. One minute it fills you with a rush of passion, the next you're full of fury, itching to smack the mouth of some sneering shopkeeper or smug civil servant. Yes, it's a love-hate relationship.”
― Sarah Turnbull, Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris

“Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)”
― Kathleen Flinn, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

“Ce n'était qu'un renard semblable à cent mille autres. Mais j'en ai fait mon ami, et il est maintenant unique au monde.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the accordion, and they've made a real art of their inability to bake proper bread.”
― Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

“Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante.”
― Jacques Tardi, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris/The Eiffel Tower Demon

“C'est pas assez que tous tu dis c'est de la merde, François? Tu veux coucher dans la merde, aussi?”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

“The French approach to food is characteristic; they bring to their consideration of the table the same appreciation, respect, intelligence and lively interest that they have for the other arts, for painting, for literature, and for the theatre. We foreigners living in France respect and appreciate this point of view but deplore their too strict observance of a tradition which will not admit the slightest deviation in a seasoning or the suppression of a single ingredient. Restrictions aroused our American ingenuity, we found combinations and replacements which pointed in new directions and created a fresh and absorbing interest in everything pertaining to the kitchen.”
― Alice B. Toklas

“I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar

“En la forest de Longue Attente
chevauchant par divers sentiers
m'en voys, ceste année présente
où voyage de Desiriers.
Devant sont aller mes fourriers
pour appareiller mon logis
en la Cité de Destinée.
Et pout mon cœur et moy ont pris
l'ostellerie de Pensée.

Dedans mon livre de pensée
j'ay trouvé escripvant mon cœur
la vraie histoire de douleur
de larmes toute enluminée.

In het Woud van Lang Verwachten
te paard op pad, dolenderwijs,
zie ik mijzelf dit jaar bij machte
tot Verlangens' verre reis.
Mijn knechtstoet is vooruitgegaan
om 't nachtverblijf vast te bereiden,
vond in Bestemming's Stad gereed
voor dit mijn hart, en mij ons beiden,
de herberg, die Gedachte heet.

In 't boek van mijn gepeinzen al
vond ik dan, schrijvende, mijn hart;
het waar verhaal van bitt're smart
verlucht met tranen zonder tal.

Charles d'Orléans”
― Hella S. Haasse, In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages

“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.”
― Tahir Shah, Beyond the Devil's Teeth : Journeys in Gondwanaland

“Pour la première fois depuis des siècles, le nom de chrétien devint pour un juif une garantie, le vrai chrétien: un frère, le prêtre: un protecteur naturel.”
― David Knout

“Back in New York I took full advantage of my status as a native speaker. I ran my mouth to shop clerks and listened in on private conversations, realising I’d gone an entire month without hearing anyone complaint that they were “stressed out��.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“The French doctor - the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors - says: "M'sieu, they have all been on the wrong track - ("Jane Brown's Body")”
― Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

“Le pays est devenue un territoire où les mathématiques ressemblent un jeu d'enfants: les actifs additionnent et les ����ٰ�������és soustraient.”
― Núria Añó

“The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well �� in particular the phases of "grand hysteria" described by Jean-Martin Charcot, a French physician who became world-famous in the 1870s and 1880s for his studies of hysterics..."

"The hooplike spasm Mollie experienced sounds uncannily like what Charcot considered the ultimate grand movement, the arc de de cercle (also called arc-en-ciel), in which the patient arched her back, balancing on her heels and the top of her head..."

"One of his star patients, known to her audiences only as Louise, was a specialist in the arc de cercle �� and had a background and hysterical manifestations quite similar to Mollie's. A small-town girl who made her way to Paris in her teens, Louise had had a disrupted childhood, replete with abandonment and sexual abuse.
She entered Salpetriere in 1875, where while under Charcot's care she experienced partial paralysis and complete loss of sensation over the right side of her body, as well as a decrease in hearing, smell, taste, and vision. She had frequent violent, dramatic hysterical fits, alternating with hallucinations and trancelike phases during which she would "see" her mother and other people she knew standing before her (this symptom would manifest itself in Mollie). Although critics, at the time and since, have decried the sometime circus atmosphere of Charcot's lectures, and claimed that he, inadvertently or not, trained his patients how to be hysterical, he remains a key figure in understanding nineteenth-century hysteria.”
― Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery