Royal Tea Service Quotes

“place my hands over his fists and stare steadily at him until he meets my eyes. “If you hold her in such high esteem, then give her some credit,” I say. “Trust that she will also extend it to you. Unless you’ve demonstrated to her that you don’t deserve it which, to be clear, hypothetically you would be on your way toward doing, if you don’t reevaluate your course.”
― Casey Blair, Royal Tea Service

“But a quiet bookshop is ideal, to discover, and in fact simply as a place to exist peacefully without needing to act.”
― Casey Blair, Royal Tea Service

“We choose as best we can those who will lift us up and support the people we wish to be, not the ones who smother who we would become. This, I think, is the core of what Iryasa needs from me today: the understanding that relationships are not about giving up or sharing control of ourselves. It’s about finding people whose visions of who we are and can be are in line with ours. It’s about people who want to help us grow into ourselves.”
― Casey Blair, Royal Tea Service

“So a successful work day for me isn’t whether I’ve sold a piece; it’s whether I’ve done my work. Whether I showed up and put in time. Whether I did my best crafting a piece of pottery. Whether I presented it to customers as well as I could have. That’s what I can control, so those are the results I focus on.”
― Casey Blair, Royal Tea Service