Emma

“– an orange is une orange, a lemon is un citron. Je voyage en France. Je préfère Robby. Odile est belle. Paris est magnifique. Basic sentences, simple pleasures, one word at a time, every sentence in the present tense, no sadness of the past, no worries about le futur. I loved le français, a bridge to la France,”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“It’s not just sight and sound that are ratcheted up, either. My skin is so sensitive that I can tell you whether my shirt is cotton or polyester just by its temperature against my back. I have to cut all the labels out of my clothes so they don’t rub because they feel like coarse sandpaper. If someone touches me when I am not expecting it, I scream – not out of fear but because it sometimes feels like my nerve endings are on the outside rather than the inside.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Starting a book is like boarding a train to go on holiday.”
― Antonio Iturbe