Cynthia Jane

“We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.”
― M.F.K. Fisher, Serve It Forth

“Fiddling with damp tarragon left me so intensely irritated that when I was done I had to stick the ramekin/mise en place bowls back in the fridge and go watch both the episode where Xander is possessed by a demon and the one where Giles regresses to his outrageously sexy teen self and has sex with Buffy’s mom, just to get over it.”
― Julie Powell, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

“You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun