The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

Sometimes if you just let things happen, rather than trying to force them, they come easier.

Maybe it wasn’t about dreams coming true (although that would be nice). Maybe it was about becoming the kind of person who chases them, regardless.

So you see, no matter what happens in life, given the right environment to prove, your life force will rise,

He told me that the love you have in your heart for someone you cannot be with is never a burden to be carried. It is a gift, he said. A gift you can share in other ways.

realised that just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you get wiser. If anything, you become more protective of what little you can control in this life, shutting out all of the possibilities that require you to trust, have faith and let go.

People need to remember, Edith, otherwise their deaths and the thousands of people who sacrificed their lives trying to protect them will have been for nothing.’ His words were so powerful. Remembrance was the best way to honour people.

Kissing him was like walking into a wildflower meadow on a warm summer’s day. I felt like my heart was shining from the inside out, twinkling like the fairy lights around us.

I tried too hard to make people like me

Oh, I’m so sorry.’ I looked up at his face, but he wore that same mask we all did, those who are left behind, trying to carry on.

I realised that just because you get older

Something magical happened when I stopped putting pressure on myself to be someone – the person I thought people wanted me to

The Stone Tape theory is a paranormal hypothesis which speculates that during intense moments in someone’s life

200g chocolat noir (dark chocolate) Une cuillère à café de sucre glace (teaspoon of icing sugar) 350ml lait (milk) 100ml crème entière 2 gouttes de liqueur vanillao (drops of vanilla liqueur)

There are some things that are better done when you’re young and foolhardy and unafraid of failure. That’s the time when you build your career

flaky pastry of the croissant. He also learned of its origin, the Austrian kipferl. Created in Vienna following the end of the Ottoman siege and shaped to resemble the crescent moon on the Turkish flag, the French renamed it ‘croissant’. They also improved upon the recipe by using layers of puff pastry and butter. Rumplemayer told Pierre that it was Marie Antoinette herself who brought the croissant to France, but that story is for another time.

Pierre explained to me

just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you get wiser. If anything, you become more protective of what little you can control in this life, shutting out all of the possibilities that require you to trust, have faith and let go.

But I had the ability to make an impact on people’s lives

What was a greater cruelty – a harsh truth or a kind lie?

Bread is a living thing,’ he used to tell me. ‘If you put your heart into the dough, you’ll spread happiness to all who eat your bread!

Madame Moreau nodded, and at last I realised that just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you get wiser. If anything, you become more protective of what little you can control in this life, shutting out all of the possibilities that require you to trust, have faith and let go.

I just abandoned it altogether as a stupid dream. I mean, that’s what happens, isn’t it? You grow up and face reality, but what you don’t realise is that abandoning your dreams is like abandoning a part of yourself.

realised I didn’t need to be like everybody else, I just needed to be me.