wayfarersmusings

“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.”
― Alka Joshi, The Perfumist of Paris

“There are men and men and every stone is not a gem. Likability is in the eye of the beholder.”
― Alka Joshi, The Perfumist of Paris

“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.”
― Alka Joshi, The Perfumist of Paris