The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

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CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.
‘You can’t let him lure you back in, Felicia. He’s ...
CHARLOTTE MUNRO So for now,
I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,
And the next time I see you,<...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it slip
let it go
say ”I give up” o...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that yo...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until y...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his ...
CHARLOTTE SULLIVAN His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and abs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the m...
CHARLOTTE BINGHAM You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the charac...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kin...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

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