A Not So Fictional Fall

Falling in love can be surprising, unexpected, even scary. It’s like standing in line for a roller coaster and then stepping on. Once you’ve buckled in, there’s no turning back from the thrill and rush of it all.

When you are attracted to people, it’s because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most. -Jodi Picoult

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. -Pablo Picasso

Our kiss was a complete blindside. I feel like I've been run over by a truck. A truck I want to chase down and ask to run over me again and again.

Tasha, my friend. You have become the one person I can count on to be honest with me here in the states. You support me without any hidden motives. You have made me laugh more than I thought I could. Will you do me the honor of being my wife—until Stuart do us part?

You’ve known him, what? A week? Don’t tell me you’re considering this.” “Okay. I won’t tell you I’m considering this.

He already assumes my French arrogance. I would say confidence is not arrogance if it’s factual. I’m not one to say French men are superior. What I will say is we are steeped in a culture devoted to cherishing women, appreciating them, and seducing them. We aren’t known for this worldwide for nothing. We have earned our reputation. I’ll be the first to admit some Frenchmen are more seductive than romantic, especially in our larger municipalities where the men can be downright brutish in their directness. But nonetheless, we Frenchmen know romance and we know it well enough to write a book—or twenty-two, my current number of published titles. That is, if a Frenchman were able to write well, which, some can, and some, sadly cannot.

Men always want to be a woman's first love … What [we women] like is to be a man's last romance. ~ Oscar Wilde

C'était un baiser assez incroyable ma chérie.” “Hmmm? Translation please?” “No. I cannot translate that for you.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn’t work out? Ah. But what if it does? ~ Peter McWilliams

Stop saying that marriage is “just a piece of paper.” … so is money, but you still get up every day and work hard for it.

I nod to Stuart, who is already moving in the direction of the mic, eager, as they say in the states, to rip the bandaid. We have a saying a little like this, to seize the nettle. Either