“Thats the thing about memories, they can make you sad, even if they are good memories. You like thinking back to them; they're the greatest treasure we have, and yetis always makes you a little sad because something has irreversibly passed.”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“Obviously, no one suspects men with flowers of evil intentions”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“...i ricordi, anche se sono belli, a volte rendono malinconici. Fa piacere ripensare a certi momenti, sono il tesoro più grande che abbiamo, ma è triste sapere che qualcosa è finito per sempre e non tornerà più.”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“Life is a soap bubble, says Chekhov. And mine just burst.”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“Who needs a blue sky when he's unhappy? Robert was right. The sky whether grey or blue, is cold and unemotional, and ultimately even the sun is only a fireball that, unaffected by everything going on here below on Earth, simply spews in masses of magma into space.”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“Love is still the most wonderful thing that can happen between two people?”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“But here in the West, we just have to live with unhappy endings.”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“The girl in the red coat would remain the the sweet but sore point in my biography: the promise never kept; the mystery that would always remain a mystery. And yet, I regretted nothing. Someday it would be less painful. Someday my heart would be light again. I had to only let it happen.”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“As a child, I was happy without wanting to be. I mean, I never thought about whether I wanted to be happy again, I just was.”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“When you get a little older, there comes a time when you realise thats whats called happiness consists only of individual lovely moments, those special times that you remember later on.”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“Thats how you look at someone you're saying goodbye to forever. Someone you have to say goodbye to. I couldn't understand what was happening here. I couldn't understand what I'd done.”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“You're the only one I'm waiting for!”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“Paris became a star among the stars”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“Da piccola ero incosciente. Con la testa fra le nuvole. Felice con nulla. Da bambina ero felice senza volerlo. Cioè, non mi sono mai chiesta se ero felice e non mi sono mai sforzata di esserlo, lo ero e basta. Crescendo capisci che quella che chiami felicità in realtà sono singoli momenti belli. Quelli di cui porti il ricordo dentro di te,”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“Tender thoughts of Paris was that that kind of film. It was a bittersweet comedy that hit people where they were most vulnerable: in the hear”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“You'll never see my favourite film on any screen in the world," I replied with a smile. "Not even here in the Cinema Paradis”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
“They really showed very little understanding for a man and woman who were in the process of forgetting that there was anything or anyone else in the world except the two of them”
― Nicolas Barreau, quote from One Evening in Paris
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“Many a times there is no perfect solution for a given problem. No solution is also a solution. Everything depends upon how you look at it. We make judgements on others depending upon what we think of them.”
― Sudha Murty, quote from How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories
“I swear I'll snap your neck just because you're annoying me,”
― Erica Stevens, quote from Renegade
“You can do this Braith,” she whispered.
He was pretty sure he could do just about anything if she was standing at his side.”
― Erica Stevens, quote from Refugee
“First thing I'd do is make sure the poor newbie demigods don't have to suffer through the orientation film."
All conversation stopped. "What orientation film?" Will Solace asked.
Nico looked puzzled. "You know ..." He glanced side to side, clearly uncomfortable with everybody watching him. Finally he cleared his throat and sang in a warbly voice to the tune of "The Hokey Cokey": "It lets the demigods in! It shuts the monsters out! It keeps the half-bloods safe, but turns mortals all about! It's Misty, and it's magic, and it makes me want to shout: the border is all about!" He punctuated the last line of the song with some half-hearted claps.
We stared at him in stunned silence.
"Nico." Will patted his boyfriend's arm. "You're scaring the other campers."
"More than usual," Julia Feingold muttered under her breath.
"Oh, come on," Nico protested. "You've all heard that annoying song, right? It's from Welcome to Camp Half-Blood."
Nobody responded.
"The orientation film," Nico added.
We shared a group shrug.
Nico groaned. "You mean I just sang in public and ... I'm the only one who's ever seen that stupid film?"
"So far, anyway," said Connor Stoll.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from Camp Half-Blood Confidential
“Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order.”
― Noam Chomsky, quote from Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
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