Quotes from Kathleen Tessaro

Thing is,' Sis confided, 'all the important people here look ordinary and the really fancy ones are usually broke or on the make. I'll tell you, you're in an upside-down world now,' she said, shaking her head. 'Takes a while, but you'll get used to it.

There is not one part of me that won't shrink and die without you. There is not one moment when I will not regret the very air I breathe. I am inadequate, a complete failure in the very task of loving and yet I love you. I love you. Badly. Stupidly. As clumsily and as greedily and as hopelessly as a child. And I would not, for all the world, have you believe otherwise. I am broken.

Everything we sell will probably outlast us, isn't that an odd thought? It was here before we were born and will be here long after we're gone.

Being slender is undoubtedly elegant but neurotic self-obsession is not. - Madame Dariaux

There was something naïve, sweetly arrogant about the doctor's assumption that everyone wanted to live forever.

It's funny how some arguments are easier, more comforting, than real conversation.

Young men seemed to collect by her side, ready with drinks and conversation. She tanned quickly and easily, her delicate limbs oiled and gleaming. In the evening, she made the most of her new tan in low-cut clinging evening dresses in white or black.

your character isn't measured in your circumstances, but by your attitude and actions.

Dorsey was out of her league. When a woman like Kay Waverley took you on over a man, you were done for. It was the scandal of the season and all of Monte Carlo agreed; poor little Dorsey wasn't handling it well.

Live, Monsieur Tissot. I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.

Is there anything more haunting than the ambitions of youth?

You see, the truth is no one ever really falls in love with anyone but themselves. Love is a mirror; a reflective surface projecting who we wish we were. What we've all waiting for is someone to come along who will show us something new about ourselves that we can adore. And then, because someone loves us, in turn, we love ourselves. Does that make sense?

Ladies didn't wake up on the floor, covered in cat.

fragrance is an aspiration. A goal. Not just a tool of seduction but of power and status.

glass, madam. He looks to see his own face, not

A young woman on the cusp of her sexual awakening is a powerful creature.' She

We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.

Kintsugi [is] not just a method of repair but also a philosophy. It's the belief that the breaks, cracks, and repairs become a valuable and esteemed part of the history of an object, rather than something to be hidden. That, in fact, the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

One cannot underestimate the importance of a train being on time. Or leave to chance the space between the plane and the bomb.

Do you live by your standards?" "Sometimes...sometimes I do, and other times I do what's expected of me.

She'd always heard that Paris was elegant but hasd struggled to imagine how. She'd assumed it would be rigid; the demanding intolerance of perfection. But...she was struck by the easy naturalness of everything.

Being with Diana was a liberating, unholy adventure. It was also dark and strange and, tonight, even a little terrifying. James was right. Just like Lord Byron, she was mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

What a shock it had been when she began to grow invisible to men and they no longer registered her. How humiliating to discover time had abducted her favorite version of herself and replaced it with a saggy middle-aged woman instead.

I'm an exceptional artist. Trapped in the body of man with no musical