Quote by Muriel Barbery Download Open image ““Papa is just a kid who's playing the dead serious grown-up.”” — Muriel Barbery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The whole time I was growing up...living in this house...Papa was like a shadow that followed you everywhere. ...It would wrap around you and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.” — Andrew Galasetti Copy Share Image
“I no longer possessed the luxury of falling in love. If something should happen to Papa, I would lose the legacy and be left… — Debra Borchert Copy Share Image
“If he went around looking into people’s windows like you say, He’d see how things were here; He’d see that it was cold and… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Only just now she said to me, ‘I am very happy, papa!’ When they say ‘father’ stiffly, it sends a chill through me; but… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Papa wasn't like them, with lines like cursive writing up and down their faces.” — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“He had turned nine only six days ago, but now he felt very old because Papa wasn’t home yet and those fire-demons were laughing.” — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
“Then his father did something horrible. He smiled. Tris had never seen Papa smile. It terrified him, and he screamed and screamed.” — Rowan Speedwell Copy Share Image
“They said growing up was watching your breasts grow, your waist widen and hairs sprout on your erogenous ones. You became aware of the… — Ukamaka Olisakwe Copy Share Image
“Where are we?' the mouse child asked his father. His voice was tiny in the stillness of the night. 'I don't know' the father… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, teach the teachers; and those who can't teach the teachers go into… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“A terroir only exists by virtue of one's childhood mythology . . . we have invented these words of tradition rooted deep in the… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple,authentic and refined sensations, a license given… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I am not turning into a contemplative . . . But those roses . They were something else. I was having… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
