Teri

“If a certain item is really that special, display it proudly in the house; it’s not proving anything to anyone stashed away in the basement.”
― Francine Jay, The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life

“It sped her toward the idea that Dr. Lecter’s taste for rarefied things, things in a small market, might be the monster’s dorsal fin, cutting the surface and making him visible.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“and those particular passages may have encouraged receptive readers to wake up, embrace risk, love wholeheartedly, revere nature, reject authority, and never take themselves too seriously.”
― Mara Altman, Tom Robbins: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Everyone in America is extremely concerned with hydration. Go more than five minutes without drinking, and you’ll surely be discovered behind a potted plant, dried out like some escaped hermit crab. When I was young no one would think to bring a bottle of water into a classroom. I don’t think they even sold bottled water. We survived shopping trips without it, and funerals. Now, though, you see people with those barrels that Saint Bernards carry around their necks in cartoons, lugging them into the mall and the movie theater, then hogging the fountains in order to refill them. Is that really necessary?”
― David Sedaris, Calypso