The Paris Daughter

by Kristin Harmel

If you give a person a book, you give him the world.

And children deserve the world, don’t you think?”

I’ve always believed that books are simply dreams on paper, taking us where we most need to go.”

“I think that love is always difficult, because it requires us to lose a bit of ourselves to gain so much more,” Juliette said at last. “But I believe that whatever we give up is worth it in the end, if we give those pieces to someone who loves us back just as fiercely.”

“Such things can happen anywhere as long as good people look away.

“The universe always leads you to exactly where you’re meant to be, for though it may be endless, there is a place in it for each and every one of us.”

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. —DANTE ALIGHIERI, INFERNO

There was a difference between honoring the past and being trapped by it.

“Even if life transforms us, we are all who we are at our core, our whole lives through.”

think,” he said slowly, “that sometimes, the roads we don’t know we’re walking are the ones that lead us to exactly where we’re meant to be.”