" Part of me still thought these things were important, and was scared not to
have them. But part of me knew my life couldn’t be judged or summed up in quite that way. At some point I was going to have to stop comparing apples and oranges. If I wanted to be happy here, I was going to have to evaluate my life in Paris on its own terms. "

― Elizabeth Bard , Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes