Leonel Akamine

“There are many different ways to revise a cookbook. Faced with the task of updating Joy in the mid-1990s, my father, Ethan,”
― Irma S. Rombauer, Joy of Cooking

“When she went out she used to wear a lot of eye shadow, which married with the sulky way she sometimes held her mouth to give her a characteristic bruised look; a look that subtly made one want to bruise her more.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“I pushed
your boat
out of the gentle
stream

where
you were merrily
singing
and rowing

Forgive me
life
is but
a nightmare”
― Gail Carson Levine, Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems

“إن الإنسان إذا وجد في حياته معنى أو هدفاً، فإن معنى ذلك أن وجوده له أهميته وله مغزاه، وأن حياته تستحق أن تعاش، بل إنها حياة يسعى صاحبها لاستمرارها والاستمتاع بمغزاها”
― فيكتور إيميل فرانكل, Man's Search for Meaning