Sacred, quiet heart

Not just because it’s in Amelie or because it’s in one of my favourite parts of Paris, or because you can see it, atop its hill, from all over Paris, or because it has a carousel at its feet and a view that lays Paris out like a blanket in front of you, Sacre Coeur is my favourite Parisian church because it’s beautiful and white and rounded. I like it from the inside, where it’s warm and quiet and lit by the strange additional light of all the gold tiles in the famous mosaic of Jesus, but I like it better from the outside, where it’s white and smooth and looks like it belongs on the inside of a snow globe.