Patty

“Having a mind that cannot stay quiet, I've never been able to meditate without going stir-crazy. But give me a ball of dough and the not-so-distant dream of a piping hot cherry tart with a beautiful lattice-weave top and a generous sprinkling of confectioners sugar, and a feeling of serenity washes over me. My mind instantly hushes.”
― Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family

“For sometimes when we wonder, we can make things begin to happen.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Wheel on the School

“He was sick of the excuses and the lies. He was tired of the evasions and the untruths, of people refusing to stand up and speak the truth and take responsibility for their own actions. It seemed to him like yet another symptom of the decline of Western civilization; of chaos; and climate change; and environmental disaster; and war; disease; famine; oppression; the eternal slow slide down and down and down. It was entropy, nemesis, apotheosis, imminent apocalypse, and sheer bad manners all rolled into one.

People were not returning their library books on time.”
― Ian Sansom, Mr. Dixon Disappears

“Nine runs to the bad, doomed, insanely hopeful, they pleaded raucously for the impossible.”
― Roger Angell, The Summer Game