“If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.”
― Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
― Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“Though we typically turn to sugar to balance out bitter flavors in a sauce or soup, it turns out that salt masks bitterness much more effectively than sugar. See for yourself with a little tonic water, Campari, or grapefruit juice, all of which are both bitter and sweet. Taste a spoonful, then add a pinch of salt and taste again. You’ll be surprised by how much bitterness subsides.”
― Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
― Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
“This is preposterous,” he said. “If I say yes, I’m buying something I didn’t ask for. And if I refuse, I’m like a man who complains that someone stole the eggs from his henhouse and replaced them with rubies.”
― The Golem and the Jinni
― The Golem and the Jinni
“The desire for instruction and the search for truth is now a new and noteworthy crime.”
― The Annotated Luther: The Roots of Reform
― The Annotated Luther: The Roots of Reform
“What Boo Rdley did might seem peculiar to us but it did not seem peculiar to him.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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