Stacey

“In all your days, so few of them will be spent drinking wine at its source. Those days are special.”
― Laure Dugas, Champagne Baby: How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine--and Life--the American Way

“Like it or not, we are irrevocably a product of our time and place.”
― Laure Dugas, Champagne Baby: How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine--and Life--the American Way

“After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:
A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“This," he says, "is precisely what campfires are for. The sharing of stories. There's a spiritual connection between flame and narrative."

S. nods. He understands Stenfalk's proposition intuitively; we create stories to help us shape a chaotic world, to navigate inequities of power, to accept our lack of control over nature, over others, over ourselves.”
― Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams