45 Quotes by Janet Skeslien Charles

Without toi, there’s no moi.

Books the fresh air breathed in to keep the heart beating, to keep the brain imagining, to keep hope alive.

First because I was happy to have read it. Second because the story was so moving. Third because I’ll never again experience the discovery of it.

Kissing was the prologue of a marvelous book, one I wanted to read until the end.

Your father’s old, he won’t change. And dogs don’t have kittens, so you’re as stubborn as he. The only thing you can change is the way you see him.

And I need you. Without toi, there’s no moi.

Sometimes I like books more than people.

Jane Austen’s. Though the authoress wrote in the nineteenth century, the situation for many of today’s women remained the same: futures determined by whom they married.

As a reader, she was an omnivore, devouring science, math, history, plays, and poetry. Her bookshelves ran over, so her vanity table was a mixture of pink blush and Dorothy Parker, mascara and Montaigne. Her armoire held Horace and high heels, stockings and Steinbeck. Her love of books and her love for me imbued my being like the amber scent of Shalimar she dabbed behind our ears.