“This is the root of all catastrophe in the family: no one ever knows when to call it a day.”
― She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me
― She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me
“Rosemary died when I was six, and when my parents told me, I cried. I wasn’t sure if I had a right to, but I think now of something the British chef Nigel Slater once wrote, that it is “impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.” I think the same can be said of the person who scoops your ice cream into a dish and stands, smiling, as you eat.”
― Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
― Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“Everyone must reach a point in their life when they stop running. When it is easier to stand still than to keep being chased, even if the person chasing you is only in your head.”
― Trail of Broken Wings
― Trail of Broken Wings
“Buddhism, he thought, is a clean religion. You never heard about how eight people—two of them children—just got blown the fuck up as part of the long-standing conflict between Buddhists and whoever.”
― The Library at Mount Char
― The Library at Mount Char
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