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

The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else’s. —Elizabeth Taylor

They say a guilty conscience is a lively enemy.

The branch of patience bears sweet fruits, she reminded me.

“There are men and men and every stone is not a gem. Likability is in the eye of the beholder.”

“Being a woman is difficult. I can see why my mother didn’t like her own gender. We can do so much. Give so much. But not everyone wants what we’re offering. And in the end, we’re left with...pieces of a whole. Shards. Splinters. Chips. Pick them up, they cut our hands. Leave them on the ground, they cut our feet. It’s hard for us to just walk away.”

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.

“A wise man to the rest of the world is a nobody at home.”