The Little Book

“Swan, any place you go, wherever you find yourself, I fear I am bound to follow.”
― Ella Fields, The Savage & the Swan

“Life somehow didn’t quite make sense anymore. Like it did, but it didn’t at the same time. I felt like I could see the way life was supposed to be.”
― Elizabeth Stevens, The Art of Breaking Up

“RECIPE FOR MURDER 1 stocky man who abuses his wife 1 small tender wife 1 medium-sized tough woman in love with the wife 1 double-barrelled shotgun 1 small Karoo town marinated in secrets 3 bottles of Klipdrift brandy 3 little ducks 1 bottle of pomegranate juice 1 handful of chilli peppers 1 mild gardener 1 fire poker 1 red-hot New Yorker 7 Seventh-day Adventists (prepared for The End of the World) 1 hard-boiled investigative journalist 1 soft amateur detective 2 cool policemen 1 lamb 1 handful of red herrings and suspects mixed together Pinch of greed Throw all the ingredients into a big pot and simmer slowly, stirring with a wooden spoon for a few years. Add the ducks, chillies and brandy towards the end and turn up the heat.”
― Sally Andrew, Recipes for Love and Murder

“If a man treats a woman so badly that she ends her own life, it’s like he has killed her twice: her heart and then her body.”
― Sally Andrew, Recipes for Love and Murder