Emma

“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.”
― Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection

“What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.”
― Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection

“Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.”
― Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection