Bookish Haven

“If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.”
― 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.”
― Samin Nosrat, 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.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“The desire for instruction and the search for truth is now a new and noteworthy crime.”
― Timothy J. Wengert, The Annotated Luther: The Roots of Reform