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“I use “old,” soured dough itself, rather than a liquid starter. A fermented piece of dough used to leaven a bigger piece of dough is often called a pre-ferment: I”
― Jim Lahey, The Sullivan Street Bakery Cookbook

“You know someone is truly special when the most beautiful thing they have on is a kind soul.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“These were not French bakeries with a rigorous and obsessive method. There was a method, but it was quiet and relaxed, based on practice, experience, and a determined grappling with what I think of as a particularly Italian quest: How to achieve sublime beauty with the least amount of effort.”
― Jim Lahey, The Sullivan Street Bakery Cookbook

“You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let's give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.”
― Bob Ross

“Sometimes I feel I am two people, reaching after two different lives. Or rather, joined to you, I am a different person from who I am when we are apart. When we are together, I lose … something. I don’t know what to call it. My ability to be only myself.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“Shall not I drive you through seas no other man would dare, shall not we together see lands that are the stuff of legends? Shall not we venture together under skies where the stars have not been named yet? Shall not we, you and I, weave such a tale of our adventures that the whole world will be in awe of us?”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“She shouldn’t take any notice of what those muppets think, says Granny. Because all the best people are different – look at superheroes. After all, if superpowers were normal everyone would have them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises

“Ralph found himself remembering times in his life when he’d hit the emotional equivalent of a cold spot while swimming or clear air turbulence while flying. You’d be cruising along through your day, sometimes feeling great, sometimes just feeling okay, but getting along and getting it done . . . and then, for no apparent reason at all, you’d go down in flames and crash. A sense of What the hell’s the use would slide over you – unconnected to any real event in your life at that moment but incredibly powerful all the same – and you felt like simply creeping back to bed and pulling the covers up over your head.”
― Stephen King, Insomnia

“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Good men don’t need to become legends.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set

“Didn’t women realize when they were too old to be attractive?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Every scholar knew that one of the greatest dangers in research was the desire to find a specific answer.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Cannot a human man love his father, yet not believe he is a good person?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“A good king is one who is trusted by his people—and one who deserves that trust.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“For every Push, there is a Pull. There are no exceptions. It makes simple, logical sense—unlike the ways of men, which are filled with flaws, irregularities, and double meanings. Allomancy is a thing of nature.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“People like what is familiar, child.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

“You’d be surprised at what men will go through in order to get themselves properly intoxicated.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“It appeared that their days of moving about freely in the city were at an end.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Good men will kill as quickly for what they want as evil men—only the things they want are different.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof? How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn’t occur in the present day?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Please, he thought. I want to believe. I really do. I just … I just need something. Something more than shadows and memories. Something real.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“The whole machine devotes itself coldly to the destruction of his difference. They’ll beat your spirit and your nerves, your body and your mind, with iron rods until the dangerous difference goes out of you.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“When two events have something in common, in their natures or in time or place, we leap happily to the conclusion that they are similar and from this tendency we create magics and store them for retelling.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Maybe—maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren’t sure of yourself?”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden