Hoa Jaffray

“Starting from this point of view, it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“em un mot la nature et l'experience m'appirent,apres mure reflexion,que toutes les bonnes choses de l'univers ne sont bonnes pour nous que suivont l'usage que nous en faisons,et qu'on n'en jouit qu'autant qu'on s'en sert ou qu'on les amasse pour les donner aux autres,et pas plus ”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe.

“The federal government has the legal authority to recall a defective toaster oven or stuffed animal—but still lacks the power to recall tons of contaminated, potentially lethal meat.”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“The good life doesn't knock on the door.
Joy is a job.”
― Lionel Shriver