Jo Weston

“[following the Kursk disaster].. "Putin appeared on CNN's Larry King Live. When King asked "What happened?", Putin shrugged, smiled - impishly, it seemed - and said "It sank".”
― Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

“Do you think I could be... a good father? Like Yours. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind

“In such families as [Nidderdale's], when such results have been achieved, it is generally understood that matters shall be put right by an heiress. [....] Rank squanders money; trade makes it; -- and then trade purchases rank by re-gilding its splendour”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“Cooking is the transformation of uncertainty (the recipe) into certainty (the dish) via fuss.”
― Julian Barnes, The Pedant in the Kitchen