Top Highlights

• The croissants in France are so light they must be made by angels, and the coffee, so thick and black, by the devil.
• All distances in France are measured from Nôtre Dame. Nôtre Dame is Mile One.
• carefully. What went wrong today? I allowed myself to think about it for the first time all day. I was so exact.
• “Do you know what faux amis are?” she asked. “Oh, yes.” I'd learned about them in French class long ago and tried to keep up with an ever-growing list. “They're false friends. Words that sound similar in French and English but have a very different meaning.”
• There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi