They laugh. They forget. They change. They explore. They argue. They accept. They move on. They refuse. They regret. They hate. They protect. They enjoy. They try. They complain. They pretend. They support. They encourage. They forgive. They trust. They love. They remember.
And no matter where they are...
"We're going to come and visit each other a lot, right ?"
"Of course."
"Like every week-end ?"
"Sure..."
"Like, one week-end you'll come over to your place, and the next one I'll go to my place..."
Silence.
"Er... I was planning to go to my place every night, actually."
"What were you guys doing ?"
"What can a man and a woman do in a locked room at 2 AM ?"
"Make love..."
"Oh yes. We had a passionate, almost wild intercourse with the legitimacy of the EU."
"No, I just want to fall in love once and for the rest of my life ! And let him be my one and only..."
"Yes, darling, I thought so too [married for the 5th time]."
"Non, franchement, cette fille, elle a besoin d'un mec... Ou, peut-être, même deux."
"I actually prefer drawing corpulent women. You know, at least there is something to draw."
"If ignorance is the best defense, I'm feeling protected from all angles for my next 3 years of uni."
"I've known you for freaking ages. I know everything about you, every single bloody detail !"
"Why are so annoyed ?"
"Because I just realized I actually know nothing."
"She's so innocent, that if she were the drug dealer, even frontier dogs would be touched at the very sight of her and let her go."
"You want coffee ?"
"Umm... Yeah, that wouldn't be bad..."
"Let me make you some tea then."
"J'ai grossi..."
"T'as grossi ?! Où ??!"
"Ici [pointing at her boobs]."
"...Et ça te dérange ???"
"Could you define love ?"
"It's all about giving. Giving, without asking for anything in return. It's about compassion, and care, and support when needed..."
"I said love, not a humanitarian mission."
"You're evil."
"Yes, and you're saying that after crashing my car."
"You're either a genius, or a complete and utter retard."
"Well, you're either an asshole or my husband."
"You know what's your problem ? You're too intelligent."
"Oh hi ! You're alive ?"
"No."
"I sat next to her expecting to cheat. But she didn't know shit !"
"Let's just say, her knowledge was not that... profound."
"You know what's really annoying me right now ? My brain just refuses to acknowledge the fact of its existence."
"Oh my, I'm so fucked... Oh, I'm so screwed... Oh man, this is not even remotely going to plan, not in a million years !"
"What's wrong ??"
"I have to leave in ten minutes and I don't have enough time to do my nails !"
"Best is, it actually makes sense !"
"It's 'cause you have a cool name without "Ys" and "Zs" and fucking stupid letters."
"Darling, save my life !!!!"
"God, what happened ?"
"Do you have a pencil sharpener ?"
"Couldn't you have chosen another night to commit suicide ? When it wasn't this windy at least ? Say, last week when it was 15 degrees ?"
"I was on holiday last week."
"...Fair enough."
"Honey, installing this program on your net-book would be like driving the hay around on a Maybach."
"I had this particular dream for ages now..."
"What is it ?"
"To hit somebody with a frying pan."
"Oh, oh, the boat is moving !"
"It's not. We're drunk."
"I would even quit smoking so that my hand is always free to hold his."
"You know what we were doing in the shower together ? Brainstorming for the exam."
"How can you combine such a masculine character with such a feminine appearance ?"
"I'm a hermaphrodite at heart."
"You know, you are like the Gothic queen of this castle. Eating cheese."
"Good to know I'm not like the Gothic queen of this castle, eating a hot-dog."
"Drat, we just passed out on that bed, and the moment we woke up there way this guy telling us to pay 70 euros for it, because apparently the room was private and... Don't touch the breakfast ! Don't touch it ! We'll have to pay more !!!"
"Imagine, before, in the 19th century, when women used to wear so many petticoats... It used to take ages to undress them !"
"I hate swearing, I never swear."
"Except when little kids take your place on the swing, then you curse like a trooper."
"I covered quite a flexible, I'd say even vast time-frame in my [45-minute] essay. From mesozoic era till the end of the Cold War."
"You look like a druggie."
"I enjoy giving the wrong impression."
"And you do it with perfection."
"Hey, come on, stop complaining ! I mean look, we just climbed the mountain !"
"Yeah, would be good to descend now."
"I think I'm in love..."
"Who is she ?"
"You know her. You see her every day, actually."
"Really ?? Where, at school ?"
"In the mirror."
"Je trouve que le Carré Noir a le rapport très fort avec la finance. Et surtout, avec la globalisation dans la société contemporaine."
"Ah oui, ah oui, je suis d'accord... Tout à fait, je vois très clairement ce que tu veux dire et je trouve que ton raisonnement est assez intéressant. Tu pourrais même faire le doctorat sur ça, tu sais ?"
"...Et tu sais que je note des citations comme ça, en effet ?"
"Bah, j'étais sûre !"
...From Dijon to Paris, to Barcelona, to Prague, to Moscow, to Kiev, to London, to New York City, to Brussels, to Nancy, to Cannes, to Monaco, to Menton, to Rome, to Milan, to Sofia, to Dnepropetrovsk, to Pittsburgh, to Boston, to Saint-Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Bucharest, to Toronto, to Los Angeles, to Montpelier, to Stuttgart, to Washington, to Berlin, to Geneva, to Beirut, to Montreal, to Bratislava, to Vienna, to Cairo, to Belgrade, to Tuscany, to Dubai...
