Bernard Farrell

“I knew that the little starbursts I called flavor crunchies were actually an amino acid known as tyrosine that formed in aged cheeses like cheddar and Gouda. I also knew that I would definitely continue calling them flavor crunchies.”
― Joe Berkowitz, American Cheese: An Indulgent Odyssey Through the Artisan Cheese World

“Endings are what give stories meaning. I don’t know if I believe that. I think the whole story has meaning but I also think to have a whole story-shaped story it needs some sort of resolution. Not even a resolution, some appropriate place to leave it. A goodbye. I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Someone was trying to keep the story from ending, I think.
But the story wanted an ending.
Endings are what give stories meaning.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Tucked in my bag is another book from the shelf above my desk. Blue and cloth-bound, it's full of stories that I wrote myself. Stories from my childhood on Svalbard. These stories are nonfiction. They're pieces of my heart made of paper and ink.”
― Nicole Lesperance, The Wide Starlight