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“You made it through a war; I can't even make it through Junior High.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“GRIEF IS A sea made of your own tears. Salty swells cover the dark depths you must swim at your own pace. It takes time to build stamina. Some days, my arms sliced through the water, and I felt things would be okay, the shore wasn’t so far off.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“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.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“Then, with a handful of pages left, I started to dread the fact that this world that I loved was coming to an end. I wasn’t ready to say goodbye. I read slowly, just savoring the scenes.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library