Marcella White > Marcella's Quotes

“Our current royal family doesn’t have the difficulties in breeding that pandas do, but pandas and royal persons alike are expensive to conserve and ill-adapted to any modern environment.”
― Anonymous

“It is a discreetly sensual act of disclosure, showing their pieces together in public. And assembling these lacquers also records their assignations: the collection records their love-affair, their own secret history of touch.”
― Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

“Naturally, etiquette books order handwashing before as well as after meals, but the practice also appears, with a frequency that borders on obsession, in poetry. Poets found it hard to describe a banquet or even a meal without affirming that everyone washed their hands.”
― Katherine Ashenburg, The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History