“the kind of love I love to fall into is the kind of love that’s most at home in the kitchen; a domestic kind of love; an intimate, easy, buttery kind of love.”
― In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
― In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
“We poor mortals are made like this, a mixture of contrasts, shade and light, fears and exaltations.”
― No Picnic on Mount Kenya
― No Picnic on Mount Kenya
“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.”
― The Man Who Planted Trees
― The Man Who Planted Trees
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