Tsarina Book Quotes & Sayings

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us. — Oscar Wilde

was mildly surprised to see) and in the smallest — Jeffery Deaver

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening. — Emmanuelle Beart

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food. — Mallory Ortberg

Children...wake up and find themselves here, discover themselves to have been here all along; is this sad? They wake like sleepwalkers, in full stride,; they wake like people brought back from cardiac arrest or from drowning: in medias res, surrounded by familiar people and objects, equipped with a hundred skills. They know the neighborhood, they can read and write English, they are old hands at the commonplace mysteries, and yet they feel themselves to have just stepped off the boat, just converged with their bodies, just flown down from a trance, to lodge in an eerily familiar life already well underway. — Annie Dillard

The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail. — Edward Young

All sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself, all small children already have the old person in themselves, all infants already have death, all dying people the eternal life. — Hermann Hesse

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in. — Michael Chabon