Nina George Books & Quotes

“The reality of love is better than its reputation”

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“I have already lived long enough, Manon had written in late autumn, on an autumn day like today. I have lived and loved, I have had the best of this world. Why cry over the ending? Why cling to what remains? The advantage of dying is that you stop being afraid of it. There is a sense of peacefulness too.”

Dying Peacefulness

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Books can do many things, but not everything. We have to live the important things, not read them.”

Reading Literature Books Living Experience Words

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Everything was to be experienced at the highest pitch of passion and life. To expect something greater after life was to forget that life was the greatest thing of all. He had forgotten that, and now he wanted to live with all his strength and with no further dread.”

Life Living Passionate Living Enjoying Life Taking Control Of Your Life Live Life Fully

Book:The Little French Bistro

Source: The Little French Bistro

“We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.”

Love Life Truth Finding Love

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.”

Love Self

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“When the stars imploded billions of years ago, iron and silver, gold and carbon came raining down. And the iron from that stardust is in us today-in our mitochondria. Mothers pass on the stars and their iron to their children. Who knows, Jean, you and I might be made of the dust from one and the same star, and maybe we recognized each other by its light. We were searching for each other. We are star seekers.”

Stars Stars Quotes

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“It looked as though [the stars] were breathing to some never-ending slow, deep rhythm. They breathed & watched as the world came & went. ...For them, the earth was one more island world in the immeasurable ocean of outer space, its inhabitants microscopically small”

Stars

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Whenever Monsieur Perdu looked at a book, he did not see it purely in terms of a story, retail price and an essential balm for the soul; he saw freedom on wings of paper.”

Books Monsieur Perdu

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Читання — це безкінечна дорога. Це довга, точніше нескінченна подорож, що робить людину терпимішою, більш люблячою і добрішою.”

Reading

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne was grieving, and her boundless grief made her regret every moment of cowardice in her life.”

Grief Regret

Book:The Little French Bistro

Source: The Little French Bistro

“I don't know how many years it's been since I last slept with my husband. I was faithful, stupid and so awfully lonely that I'll gobble you up if you're nice to me. Or kill you because I can't bear it.”

Love Marriage Regret Heartbreak

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Chciałem leczyć uczucia niezakwalifikowane jako cierpienie i niezdiagnozowane przez medycynę. Wszystkie owe śladowe emocje, porywy, którymi nie interesuje się żaden terapeuta rzekomo właśnie z powodu ich znikomości czy nieuchwytności. Na przykład poczucie, że znów kończy się lato. Albo uświadomienie sobie, że nie ma się już całego życia na szukanie swojego miejsca. Albo mała żałoba, kiedy nie udało się zbliżyć w jakiejś przyjaźni i trzeba znów szukać bratniej duszy. Lub też poranna melancholia w dzień urodzin. Tęsknota za zapachem powietrza z dzieciństwa.”

Emotions

Author:Nina George

“He had barred himself from mourning because...because he had never been part of Manon's life. Because there was nobody to mourn with him. Because he was alone, totally alone with the burden of his love.”

Mourning

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.”

Love Grief Heartbreak Breakup Lovesick

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies—I mean books—that were written for one person only… A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that’s how I sell books.”

Monsieur Perdu

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Books aren’t eggs, you know. Simply because a book has aged a bit doesn’t mean it’s gone bad.” There was now an edge to Monsieur Perdu’s voice too. “What is wrong with old? Age isn’t a disease. We all grow old, even books. But are you, is anyone, worth less, or less important, because they’ve been around for longer?”

Aging Old Books Monsieur Perdu

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“How strange, thought Perdu, that one laugh can wipe away so much hardship and suffering. A single laugh. And the years flow together and…away.”

Laughter Is The Best Medicine Monsieur Perdu

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Loving or not loving should be like coffee or tea; people should be allowed to decide. How else are we to get over all our dead and the women we've lost?" Cunco whispered dejectedly. "Maybe we shouldn't." "You think so? Not get over it. but...then? What then? What task do the departed want us to do?" That was the question that Jean Perdu had been unable to answer for all these years. Until now. Now he knew. "To carry them within us—that is our task. We carry them all inside us, all our dead and shattered loves. Only they make us whole. If we begin to forget or cast aside those we've lost, then...then we are no longer present either. " Jean looked at the Allier River, glittering in the moonlight. "All the love, all the dead, all the people we've known. They are the rivers that feed our sea of souls. If we refuse to remember them, that sea will dry up too." He felt an overwhelming inner thirst to seize life with both hands before time sped past even faster. He didn't want to die of thirst, he wanted to be as wide and free as the sea—full and deep. He longed for friends. He wanted to love. He wanted to feel the marks that Manon had left inside him. He still wanted to feel her coursing through him, mingling with him. Manon had changed him forever—why deny it? That was how he had become the man whom Catherine had allowed to approach her. Jean Perdu suddenly realized that Catherine could never taken Mann's place. She took her own place. No worse, no better, simply different. He longed to show Catherine the full expanse of his sea!”

Love Monsieur Perdu

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“«Lo sai che fra la fine e il nuovo inizio c’è un mondo di mezzo? È il tempo ferito, Jean Perdu. È una palude dove si raccolgono sogni, paure e intenzioni perdute. I passi in questo tempo si fanno più pesanti. Non sottovalutare questa stazione di passaggio fra la fine e il nuovo inizio, Jeanno. Datti tempo. A volte le soglie sono così grandi che non si possono superare con un passo solo».”

Monsieur Perdu

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“«Mi piacciono le parole che sono già una descrizione di se stesse», bisbigliò Perdu. Aveva gli occhi chiusi. «‘Brezza notturna’. ‘Ostinazione’. In questa parola vedo una bambina che lotta contro tutto ciò che non vuole. Brava, magra e leggera. La piccola cavallerizza Ostinazione contro le forze oscure della ragione.» «Ci sono parole con cui ci si ferisce», intervenne Vitale. «Sono come lamette nell’orecchio e sulla lingua. ‘Disciplina’. ‘Addestramento’. Oppure ‘raziocinio’.» «Raziocinio occupa così tanto la bocca che impedisce ad altre parole di entrarci»”

Monsieur Perdu

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Also, there is a dedicated community of people in the world who will always be able to connect with each other across all languages, boundaries, and religions. It is the “Readers’ Club.” People who read a lot, starting at a very young age, are people who were raised by books. They have learned about forms of love and hate, kindness, respect, and ideas that are different from their own. They experience the world as something infinitely larger than before. They enjoy the indescribable feeling of having found their true selves. We readers are book people, and Jean Perdu [the protagonist] is one of us. We are all traveling on an invisible literary riverboat, one that carries us down the stream of life. It shapes, holds, and comforts us. At”

Monsieur Perdu

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Oh no, she was never elitist. She said that far too many women are the accomplices of cruel, indifferent men. They lie for these men. They lie to their own children. Because their fathers treated them exactly the same way. These women always retain some hope that love is hiding behind the cruelty, so that the anguish doesn't drive them mad. Truth is, though, Max, there's no love there. Max wiped a tear from the corner of his eye.”

Truth No Love Accomplices Hard Truths Cruel Indifferent Men

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“As long as she doesn't turn too smart for men For the stupid ones, she will, Madame. But who wants them anyway? A stupid man is every woman's' downfall.”

Smart Women Stupid Men

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go out and greet those wonderful creatures and say a few nice words in a language invented by Tolkein. I've practiced, but I sound like Chewbacca making a New Year's speech.”

Funny Cosplay

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Perdu and Cuneo gaped at creatures that seemed to have sprung from Middle Earth or Winterfell. Such is the power of books.”

Cosplay

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Samy was Samantha. She was wearing a white linen dress. She also had on hobbit feet, huge and extremely hairy ones.”

Cosplay

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we thinking? That someone who goes without her wishes deserves to be loved more than she who follows her dreams?”

Love Sacrifice For Others Following Dreams Empowerment Of Women

Book:The Little French Bistro

Source: The Little French Bistro

“Memórias são como lobos. Não se pode encarcerá-las e esperar que deixem você em paz”

Memórias Lobos

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“-Jeanno, kobiety potrafią kochać o wiele mądrzej niż my! One nie kochają mężczyzny dla jego wyglądu. Nawet jeśli on się im bardzo podoba. (…) Kobiety kochają cię przez wzgląd na twój charakter. Twoją siłę. Twoją mądrość. Albo dlatego, że potrafisz zaopiekować się dzieckiem. Bo jesteś dobrym człowiekiem, masz honor i godność. One kochają cię inaczej niż mężczyzna kobietę. Nie z powodu kształtnych łydek ani nie dlatego, że w swoim garniturze budzisz zazdrość u jej koleżanek z pracy. Owszem, istnieją też takie kobiety, ale są tylko jak zły przykład dla innych.”

Miłość Kobieta Kobieca Miłość

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Танго — це пігулка правди. Воно оголює ваші проблеми й ваші комплекси, але ж і ваші сильні сторони, які ви ховаєте від інших, щоб не турбувати їх. Воно показує, хто ви в парі одне для одного, як ви вмієте слухати одне одного. Люди, котрі хочуть слухати тільки себе, зненавидять танго.”

Relationship Dance Tango

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“She'll be your dance partner, Jordan" "Her? She's much too good. I'm scared!" "Remember the feeling. Someday you'll want to write about it, and then it'll be good to know how the fear feels and to go ahead and dance all the same.”

Fear Dance

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“Time. It rubs the rough edges that hurt us smooth.”

Time Hurt

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

“...коли ти жінка й виходиш заміж, то безповоротно стаєш у спостережну позицію. Ти повинна контролювати все — що твій чоловік робить, як він почувається. А потім, з появою дітей, контролювати також їх. Ти стаєш сторожовою собакою, слугою і дипломатом одночасно. І така дрібниця, як розлучення, цього не відміняє. О, ні — кохання може прийти і піти, але турбота не припиняється.”

Women Marriage

Book:The Little Paris Bookshop

Source: The Little Paris Bookshop

Nina George Books

The Little Paris Bookshop

The Little French Bistro

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