“ I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting. ”
In French culture, the best way of buying time or getting off the hook entirely in a thorny personal situation is to claim that it’s complicated. The French did not invent love, but they did invent romance, so they’ve had more time than any other culture on earth to refine the nuances of its language.
~ Mark Zero
The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to hold their personal opinions until the bitter end, even after they have clearly lost an argument.
... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.
How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?
