Quotes from book

Chocolat

“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

“I carried recipes in my head like maps.”

“The process of giving is without limits.”

“A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme”

“I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines”

“Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.”

“Places have their own characters…. But the people begin to look the same.”

“To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think… This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.”

“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”

“The wind always brings us back to the same wall”

“A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.”

“I liked her better for showing a little spirit.”