Sarah Turnbull quotes

“It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.”
-- Sarah Turnbull

Source : Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.30, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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“Such is the nature of an expatriate life. Stripped of romance, perhaps that's what being an expat is all about: a sense of not wholly belonging. [...] The insider-outsider dichotomy gives life a degree of tension. Not of a needling, negative variety but rather a keep-on-your-toes sort of tension that can plunge or peak with sudden rushes of love or anger. Learning to recognise and interpret cultural behaviour is a vital step forward for expats anywhere, but it doesn't mean that you grow to appreciate all the differences.”
-- Sarah Turnbull

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“French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.”
-- Sarah Turnbull

Source : Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.21, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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“I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm like NO ONE and I'm just starting out and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.”

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“Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.”

“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.”

“Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.”

“It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.”

“It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.”

“Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.”

“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”

“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”

“All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.”