Jan Yip

“You've got to be a little bit greedy to be a good cook - I mean you've got to appreciate good food yourself - but even if I didn't like cooking very much I would enjoy cooking for Bunny.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“I don't want to keep searching for something that's gone. I want to be happy for what I do have. Bad things happen to people all the time, and they learn to live with it. I can live with this. I already am living with it.”
― Abi Elphinstone, Winter Magic

“Jane Welsh Carlyle says in one of her letters, "One can never be too much alive to the consideration that one's every slightest action does not end when it has acted itself but propagates itself on and on, in one shape or another, through all time and away into eternity.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“Which maybe is what it means to be content: the heart safely secluded, a world unto itself.

Unlike being in the grip of Eros, who takes you over, transporting you so thoroughly it's as if you have no heart, no head, no flesh even, every part of you burning in a single bright flame.

Unlike pleasure, which must be sought after.”
― Kathryn Davis, Versailles