The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3)

by Alka Joshi

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. —Helen Keller

Interesting - senses are heightened when others are missing. Memories are in scent.

guilty conscience is a lively enemy.

Well that is true

In Hinduism, the left and right sides of the body carry different meanings. The left is the feminine, the right the masculine. The left is temporal and earthly, the right pure and sacred.

Cool

“The measure of us isn’t in the day-to-day. And it’s not in our past or our future. It’s in the fundamental changes we make within ourselves over a lifetime.

I hope so

How fragile our hearts are when we open them wide to allow love that never arrives!

Fragile hearts

Is that erasure of us something other people do to us or do we women do it to ourselves?

Women can uplift each other or totally take down.

I’ve come to think that some people are meant to be in our lives for a certain length of time and not a moment more.

Friends for a purpose and a moment