Carla’s Reviews > Poison for Breakfast > Status Update

It is always strange to stand in a place where something happened to you long ago, particularly if the place has not changed much.

It would be helpful in life, as in confusing books, to have an author, if that’s the right word, explaining to us everything we find bewildering, in the hopes we all might feel better.

Tea
with honey,
a piece of toast
with cheese,
one sliced pear,
and an egg perfectly prepared,

At this point I have this engrained in my brain

I read something once that describes the sea as “all a case of knives” and I have never forgotten it. It is a description I admire very much, because it is so startling that you know no one else has thought of it before the author did, and yet so perfectly clear that you wonder why you never thought of it yourself. All good writing is like this.