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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8046db5 | Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." She had explained that that meant that you don't worry about tomorrow, or about things you can't change. I" | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 2b69a17 | The southern standard of niceness was this: You'd never been convicted of anything, you didn't look at other's women's husbands too openly. You wrote your thank-you notes and were polite to your elders. You had to take a keen interest in your children's upbringing. And you made sure your family was fed adequately. There were sideways and byways in this "nice" thing, but those were the general have-tos." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 6386ef8 | Though I didn't mind being by myself from time to time--in fact, I enjoyed it--I'd had a little too much of it lately. And being alone is a lot more fun if it's optional. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 363379d | It was my own grief. I could feel it fading away into something I simply accepted, because that's the way I am. I knew I'd feel better. It was living until then that was hard. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| fbcce0f | As to your being worthy, I don't think falling in love has much to do with the worth of the object of love. But I'd dispute your assessment. I think you're a fine woman, and I think you always try to be the best person you can be. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 47fa3e7 | I don't have to take a stand by telling other people they're wrong," I'd protested. "What business is it of mine?" "If you love them, it's your business," he'd said firmly. "If their misbehavior is intruding on the happiness and well-being of others, it's your business." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d09afa1 | But you can't erase a thought; once you've had it, it's there to stay. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 45ccedb | The best sorts of leftover meals are those that are glorified picnics. Alongside the cold meats, you need a good purchased pate en croute--one made with veal or duck would be just the thing. Also put on the table some salad and bread. | Nigella Lawson | ||
| 0a1b1ce | when confidence is undermined or ruptured, it can be difficult to do the simplest things, or to take any enjoyment even in trying. | Nigella Lawson | ||
| 34863cc | At all times a heavy ceramic casserole would sit on a pale blue Aga, so should people drop in unexpectedly, I could wander out in my bare feet, welcome them warmly, give them dinner, then press my home-made elderberry wine on them. I would be like Nigella Lawson. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 0bc56d7 | Eating alone, for me, is most often a prompt to shop. This is where self-absorption and consumerism meet-- a rapt, satisfyingly convoluted pleasure."--Nigella Lawson" | Klancy Miller | ||
| 967dd8c | GORGONZOLA & CANNELLINI DIP WITH A TRICOLORE FLOURISH I LOVE THIS COMBINATION OF BLUE CHEESE AND WHITE BEANS, but I have to say its gorgeousness is due in no small part to the mascarpone and Marsala that add creaminess of texture and smoky depth of tone respectively. I like this dip to have real tang: I need to feel that burning, blue-cheese buzz. | Nigella Lawson | ||
| 7a9b6a3 | My thanks, Master." He waved his hand. "It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 3682787 | Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions. | Benjamin N. Cardozo | ||
| 3f31f3b | Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their number-one friend. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 11fdb18 | Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning. | Benjamin N. Cardozo | ||
| 9835b5c | Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice. | Benjamin N. Cardozo | ||
| cfb4cea | couples. Their duties done, they had eyes only for each other, locking glances and smiling deeply; two realms, two rulers, united in love and a shared dream. It | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 1fc7eb6 | he would not neglect what he considered his duty for the sake of being liked. | Naomi Novik | ||
| f56ad99 | Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. | Benjamin N. Cardozo | ||
| 3c8a7fc | There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 5d14fdc | Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error. | Benjamin N. Cardozo | ||
| bca9d3e | Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 1515d1d | I remembered my pep talk to Esperanza a few months before, and understood just how ridiculous it was. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you'll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold--with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 748b855 | His mother had let him carry two valises: one for books, one for clothes. The clothes were a waste, outgrown instantly. He should have filled both with books. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8720971 | It was strange to speak forthrightly, after living at Mrs. Bittle's those years: exiting the bathroom with downcast eyes, sitting at supper while old Mr. Judd piped up with his yellowed news extras. Now it seems we shared a kindred silence, restraining our smiles on hearing that Limburger has flown across the Atlantic. But maybe I contrive this, as lovers reconfigure the days before, with every glance leading ultimately to union. In any eve.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1c448e5 | I'd like to ask those who favor this position if they would be willing to go to Littleton and explain to some mothers what constitutes an acceptable risk. Really. Because in a society that embraces violence, this is what "our way of life" has come to mean. The question can't be why but only "Why yours and not mine?" We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy .. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 24fda93 | It is possible to establish zero tolerance for murder as a solution to anything | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a942fd6 | nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 38b1da2 | You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always the chance you'll want to use it later. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0e97fa9 | I love it for what it tells me about life. I love fiction, strangely enough, for how true it is, If it can tell me something I didn't already know, or maybe suspected but never framed quite that way, or never before had sock me so divinely in the solar plexus, that was a story worth a read. | writing | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 501d71b | All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still. | reader writing | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 66c4138 | how ridiculous it was. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you'll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold--with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 31750c0 | And I have no idea how to be kind to myself. Living, as a general enterprise, seems unkind beyond belief. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4c67f76 | Her mark on history: the female acquaintance. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7578580 | the help of friends I rearranged my small apartment to accommodate a grown-up baby, and warily crept each morning from a | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7d994e0 | Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 87f954f | my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d8d2a83 | We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0acaa4b | I had a window seat, and in a Greyhound you're up high. You pass through the land like some rajah on an elephant looking down on your kingdom. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9feda3c | Forgive me, Dellarobia. It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ad3fecd | sweet orange Jaune Flammes, which are just the right size to slice in half, sprinkle with salt and thyme, and bake for several hours until they resemble cow flops (the recipe says "shoes," if you prefer)." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 365e2dc | Geneticists have confirmed that milk-drinking adults are the exception to the norm, identifying a deviant gene on the second chromo-some that causes lactase persistence. (The gene is SNP C/T13910, if you care.) | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ef85f64 | I think of my canning as fast food, paid for in time up front. | Barbara Kingsolver |