Xwords Quotes

“The fluff of cherry blossoms is more sparse now, the flowers single rather than double and somehow more beautiful, with less pressure to perform.”
― Nigel Slater, A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

“A dust from the indoor spice market has permeated my clothes, my hair, my lungs. The ghost of ground ginger and pepper, fine and soft like talcum powder. Dust, on this trip, has been the dust of fatigue. But not today. This is dust that energises and lifts the spirits, that makes my eyes tingle and my nose run.”
― Nigel Slater, A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

“Eating rosewater ice cream from a shop in Beirut whose walls are riddled with bullet holes.”
― Nigel Slater, A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts