Reef Quotes

“I could see the meal was going to be a success even before anyone had taken a single mouthful: the mood was right, and mood, I am convinced, is the most essential ingredient for any taste to develop. Taste is not a product of the mouth; it lies entirely in the mind.”
― Romesh Gunesekera, Reef

“It's not what you do every day, but the thoughts that you live with that matter [...] That, after all, is the sum total of your life in the end.”
― Romesh Gunesekera, Reef

“They are only concerned with thw how, not the why.”
― Romesh Gunesekera, Reef

“But it takes time, years, to learn how other people cope with themselves[..]”
― Romesh Gunesekera, Reef

“When it is just yourself you can put things off, you can do away with things; when you have to serve only yourself sometimes you let yourself off: there are no obligations.”
― Romesh Gunesekera, Reef

“You know what happened in Cuba?”
― Romesh Gunesekera, Reef

“What did they do with the mango-stone I sometimes found in their bedroom in the morning? All chewed up and wasted; rubbed out like a rock smoothed in a desert, or a gift passed from one to the other over and over again, mouth to mouth. Mango for the skin? A body tonic? For the lips? A lubricant for them to live to the full the life of man and woman, or some weird object of shared desire?”
― Romesh Gunesekera, Reef