Grace Mazcuri

“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."

"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."

"I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.”
― Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

“I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.”
― Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring

“These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.”
― Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things