Adding lemon juice, black cherries, onions, garlic, and organic red wine also helps reduce the number of carcinogenic compounds formed when cooking meat at high temperatures.
“It wasn’t all bad, being a demon. You didn’t have to buy petrol, for one thing. The only time Crowley had bought petrol was once in 1967, to get the free James Bond bullet-hole-in-the-windscreen transfers, which he rather fancied at the time.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to these exhibitions of cowardice.”
― Complete Works of Victor Hugo
― Complete Works of Victor Hugo
“That hollowness and that loathing were not entirely unpleasant. Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day.”
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
“The learned and judicious King James I. had women of this kind boiled, and then tasting the water of the cauldron, was able to say from its flavour, "That was a sorceress;" or "That was not one." It is to be regretted that the kings of these latter days no longer possess a talent which placed in so strong a light the utility of monarchical institutions.”
― Complete Works of Victor Hugo
― Complete Works of Victor Hugo
“At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.”
― Complete Works of Victor Hugo
― Complete Works of Victor Hugo
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