#paris

In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren't enough euros to go around. "The entire EU is short on coins." And I say, "Really?" because there are plenty of them in Germany. I'm never asked for exact change in Spain or Holland or Italy, so I think the real problem lies with the Parisian cashiers, who are, in a word, lazy. Here in Tokyo they're not just hard working but almost violently cheerful. Down at the Peacock, the change flows like tap water. The women behind the registers bow to you, and I don't mean that they lower their heads a little, the way you might if passing someone on the street. These cashiers press their hands together and bend from the waist. Then they say what sounds to me like "We, the people of this store, worship you as we might a god. ↗

— David Sedaris

#cashiers #europe #euros #hospitality #japan

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#paris

Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-and-clary #paris

When good Americans die, they go to Paris. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#paris

Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything else is pretension or incompetence. ↗

— Tomislav Šola

#heritology #museology #museum #professionalism #šola

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#love

... far be it from a French man to interfere with love. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#french #french-men #french-people #love #love-story

It was as if we'd pressed ourselves together until his bones passed through mine and we were the same person, ever so briefly. ↗

— Paula McLain

#the-paris-wife #love

Their wedding night was at a little hotel in Paris. There were walk up steps and a lovely view. And all was well for these two. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#love #paris #love

Aku yakin kalau bersama kamu aku bisa hidup seribu tahun lagi" - Yasmin ↗