Quotes from Marc Levy

I'm going to live in theory, because in theory everything goes perfectly . . .

C'est moche d'avoir à guetter un signe de quelqu'un pour se sentir heureux.

Ton avenir est fait de choix qui t'appartiennent.

Sometimes our impulses and desires make us feel powerless. But part of the art of living is knowing how to fight that feeling; because when we're powerless, we get frightened, and then we lose our grip on our intelligence, our common sense, and we become weak.

Les moments les plus simples sont ancrés en nous à jamais.

After seeing his face in the mirror, he swore to abstain from alcohol until the end of the month. It seemed reasonable enough, since it was already the twenty-ninth.

You know what you have to do to win an Oscar these days? Play a character who's lost an arm, or a leg, or a mother, or a father, or preferably all of the above. Make it miserable and squalid and base, so people will cry their eyes out and call you a genius, but if you inspire people or make them laugh? You're not even under consideration when awards season rolls around. I'm sick of this cultural hegemony of depression.

L'amore è una particella di speranza, l'eterno rinnovarsi del mondo, il sentiero della terra promessa, colui che trova la sua metà diventi più completo dell'umanità intera. non è l'uomo che è unico in se stesso, è nel momento in cui comincia ad amare che lo diventa.

Tienes la vida ante ti; tú eres su único dueño. Se digno de todo lo que yo he amado.

Alice had a rare gift: she was a "nose." Her sense of smell was so acute that she could distinguish and memorize the slightest odor. She spent her days alone, bent over the long wooden table in her flat, blending different essences to obtain combinations that might one day become a perfume. Every month she made the rounds of the London perfume shops, offering them her new creations.

Era necesario confrontar sus sueño con la realidad aún a riesgo de verlos fracasar?

Loose screws are how the light gets in.

I think it's phony to force oneself to be jolly just because it happens to be marked on the calendar.

Ma un giorno tu mi hai detto che anche il peggiore di noi ha le ali nascoste da qualche parte e che bisogna aiutarlo ad aprirle invece di condannarlo.

Ce n'est ni la femme ni l'homme qui doivent être idéaux mais ce qu'ils veulent partager ensemble. Une grande histoire d'amour, c'est la rencontre de deux donneurs

Absolutes are essential oils, and concretes are obtained by extracting perfume from natural vegetal sources like rose, jasmine, or lilac blossom.

Mia didn't know what she wanted, but she knew what she didn't want any more. The waiting, the silence, the suspicion. She wanted to rediscover her appetite for life and to stop waking up with her stomach in knots.