I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat has a tale of ingenuity and creation, Domination and injustice – so much more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium. There are histories of food, of course.

Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination.

May your bones be washed by the salt water, your spirit return to the sand, and the love we have for you be forever around us.

We're all made of the same thing-the blown out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars. I've just never felt that knowledge in my bones until that moment, there, with you. And it's because of you.

I mean we think of phenomenal change as being the very essence of time, when it's not at all. Time is something which defies spring and winter, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently. Something changeless and joyous and absolutely indestructible.

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something-your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
-Steve Jobs

I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that don't work.
-Thomas Edison

I don't feel like I could have finished this book on a more important day, with this historic election occurring.

The night is dark,
And I am far from home,
Lead thou me on.
-Anna O'Donnell

I think all the old people who would keep women where they are, under the rule of men, are my enemy. The world is changing and I am in the forefront of change.
-Margaret Dowager Queen and Regent of Scottland

"To the finest fiber of my nature, sir."
-Jane Eyre

"But the truth is: No matter how much time passes, those we have loved never slip away from us entirely"-Count Rostov

If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.