Milk And Vine Quotes & Sayings

It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together. — Kristin Cashore

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.
Eric Packer about Vija Kinski — Don DeLillo

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself
that is the first duty of the educator. — Maria Montessori

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man. — Henry David Thoreau

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. — Abraham Lincoln

I think truth is weirder than fiction. — James Marsters

Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it. — Daniel Habil

I kind of like the thought of God looking like George Burns. — Norm Cowie

The Kitchen





Half a papaya and a palmful of sesame oil;
lately, your husband's mind has been elsewhere.

Honeyed dates, goat's milk;
you want to quiet the bloating of salt.

Coconut and ghee butter;
he kisses the back of your neck at the stove.

Cayenne and roasted pine nuts;
you offer him the hollow of your throat.

Saffron and rosemary;
you don't ask him her name.

Vine leaves and olives;
you let him lift you by the waist.

Cinnamon and tamarind;
lay you down on the kitchen counter.

Almonds soaked in rose water;
your husband is hungry.

Sweet mangoes and sugared lemon;
he had forgotten the way you taste.

Sour dough and cumin;
but she cannot make him eat, like you. — Warsan Shire

The writer has us by the hand, forces us along her road, makes us see what she sees, never leaves us for a moment or allows us to forget her. At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Bronte. Remarkable faces, figures of strong outline and gnarled feature have flashed upon us in passing; but it is through her eyes that we have seen them. — Virginia Woolf

Silence does not always mark wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I know writers like to think of themselves as bohemians,' he said, 'but that doesn't mean they can't behave like decent human beings. — Gert Loveday

Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work. — Andre Previn