Jason Goodwin > Quotes

“They were always Albanians. You know what that means. Some Catholics, some Orthodox. And some, in time, were Muslims, too. But the first religion of the Albanian, as they say, is Albania.”
― Jason Goodwin, The Snake Stone

“When a continent is poisoned by lies, truth must be an exile.”
― Jason Goodwin, The Baklava Club

“The men who had been sent to terrify Europe made a simple discovery: it was easier—and far less dangerous—to terrorize at home.”
― Jason Goodwin, The Janissary Tree

“Tea and water give each other life,' the Professor was saying. 'The tea is still alive. This tea has tea and water vitality.”
― Jason Goodwin, A Time For Tea: Travels Through China and India in Search of Tea

“Tea and water give each oter life,' the Professor was saying. 'The tea is still alive. This tea has tea and water virality,' he added. '... Afterwards, the taste still happens... It rises like velvet... It is a performance.”
― Jason Goodwin

“like Burnham Overy at all, really,” he added. “They”
― Jason Goodwin, The Snake Stone

“Ata ishin gjithmonë shqiptarë. Ti e di se çfarë do të thotë. Disa katolikë, disa ortodoksë. Dhe disa, në kohë, ishin myslimanë. Por feja e parë e shqiptarëve, siç thonë ata, është Shqipëria”
― Jason Goodwin, The Snake Stone

“Lufta nuk ka shumë rëndësi për një njeri. Një shqiptar se ka fare problem. Pyesni grekët.”
― Jason Goodwin, The Janissary Tree

“Lies beget lies,” he said. “Until, one day, someone needs the truth.” Palewski”
― Jason Goodwin, The Bellini Card

“It’s always made me feel sick, that tree. Thinking of the men hanged in the branches, like fruit. And the Janissary corpses piled around its trunk. It must have blood in it, Yash. Blood in its roots.”
― Jason Goodwin, The Janissary Tree

“The rice had gone clear, so he threw in a handful of currants and another of pine nuts, a lump of sugar, and a big pinch of salt. He took down a jar from the shelf and helped himself to a spoonful of oily tomato paste, which he mixed into a tea glass of water. He drained the glass into the rice, with a hiss and a plume of steam. He added a pinch of dried mint and ground some pepper into the pot and stirred the rice, then clamped on a lid and”
― Jason Goodwin, The Janissary Tree