Quotes from Janice Macleod

the only way to happiness is to find people with whom you can eat, drink and laugh. That is everything

Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you.

Immediately, I had the unpleasant realization that I was, in fact, living my dream life, but it was a dream life I had created after I graduated university when I didn't know any better. I grew up; my dreams did not.

I collapsed next to him on the bed and he slowly peeled off the rest of my wardrobe. We made love by moonlight.

Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.

Paris does something to a person. It unleashes the pent-up romantic. Even if you're not the touchy-feely type, you find yourself begging to hold hands and grope the nearest person as you walk over a bridge just so you can say later that you did it and wasn't that marvelous. What was his name? Does it matter?

Even the ones you don't like, you like better in Paris.

A café is for "people who want to be alone but need company for it." –Noel Riley Fitch, Paris Café: The Select Crowd

Julia Cameron's book The Artist's

In life, we must accept who is asking and accept who is not.

He said there was a plan, and if I had what I thought I wanted, there could be problems. He said to trust, to assume my current circumstances were for my benefit. He said to be grateful both for what I had and what I didn't have. if I didn't have it, I didn't need it.

sometimes you have to be the grown-up of your life and tell your inner child, who is kicking and screaming, "Get your shoes on. This is not optional. We have a play date.

That girl peering back at me from the water was me, just me. The real me. Not the other versions I tried to be to win anyone over. I took a breath and exhaled. I forgave myself for my prior judgments of not being good enough to be just who I was. The truth was I was just doing the best I could with what I knew at the time. But now I knew better.

howled with laughter at this. Sandro took my hand. "Janice, the only way to happiness is to find people with whom you can eat, drink, and laugh. That is all. That is everything." He added. "And a spoonful of Nutella each day makes life more beautiful. It's an antidepressant.

For them, work is a way to afford life, but not a definition of who you are.

I skipped to the door of my building. Is there anything more glorious than new crushes on boys?