The Perfume Garden Quotes

“Perfume is the key to our memories”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden

“Your home is within you, you carry your place in the world.”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden

“The end is never the end. It's always the the beginning of something.”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden

“Change is the one sure thing in life”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden

“My whole life, I’ve felt I was homesick for somewhere I’d never known.’ She told me that in Britain, where she grew up, the Celts called it ‘hiraeth’—a longing for home.”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden

“Would you rather die like a hero or live like a coward?”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden

“Freya, I killed a man.”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden

“Roots and wings, Em,” she remembered her mother saying. “That’s what you give your children.”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden

“Never let your capacity for love be diminished by the actions of others.”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden

“People need things like perfume and poetry, music and art more than ever during times like this. People need to remember the simple joys in life. If you forget, if life loses its color then they have won. Those cowardly, heartless bastards have won.”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden

“I’ll never forget what she said to me about having a baby. She said that she would wake in the morning to my cries, and wonder how she would get through another day. Perhaps Freya wasn’t a natural mother—some women aren’t, I suppose, and it can’t have been easy for her.”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden