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Dean Melrose
Madame Geoffrin is a French salonnière. Addie repeatedly meets her in Paris and eventually learns just what to say to impress the woman and receive an invitation to her weekly salons, thus allowing Addie to enter France’s thriving, Enlightenment-era intellectual culture. Addie’s time at the salon comes to a halt when Luc crashes the gathering and convinces Geoffrin (who due to Addie’s curse doesn’t remember inviting Addie inside) that Addie is a thief, thereby getting Addie kicked out of the salon. Geoffrin, like other characters in the book, is a real historical figure. She was a famous salonnière and important figure of the French Enlightenment.
Madame Geoffrin Quotes in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue quotes below are all either spoken by Madame Geoffrin or refer to Madame Geoffrin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 3, Chapter 9
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Mischief glints in those green eyes. “I think you’ll find my word won’t fade as fast as yours.” He shrugs. “They will not remember you, of course. But ideas are so much wilder than memories, so much faster to take root.”
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Part 5, Chapter 7
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Memories are stiff, but thoughts are freer things. They throw out roots, they spread and tangle, and come untethered from their source. They are clever, and stubborn, and perhaps—perhaps—they are in reach.
Because two blocks away, in that small studio over the café, there is an artist, and on one of his pages, there is a drawing, and it is of her. And now Addie closes her eyes, and tips her head back, and smiles, hope swelling in her chest. A crack in the walls of this unyielding curse. She thought she’d studied every inch, but here, a door, ajar onto a new and undiscovered room.
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Madame Geoffrin Quotes in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue quotes below are all either spoken by Madame Geoffrin or refer to Madame Geoffrin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 3, Chapter 9
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Mischief glints in those green eyes. “I think you’ll find my word won’t fade as fast as yours.” He shrugs. “They will not remember you, of course. But ideas are so much wilder than memories, so much faster to take root.”
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Part 5, Chapter 7
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Memories are stiff, but thoughts are freer things. They throw out roots, they spread and tangle, and come untethered from their source. They are clever, and stubborn, and perhaps—perhaps—they are in reach.
Because two blocks away, in that small studio over the café, there is an artist, and on one of his pages, there is a drawing, and it is of her. And now Addie closes her eyes, and tips her head back, and smiles, hope swelling in her chest. A crack in the walls of this unyielding curse. She thought she’d studied every inch, but here, a door, ajar onto a new and undiscovered room.
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