Rachel Hawkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.
-- Rachel Hawkins

#Wine #Facts #Reason Why
Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.
-- Rachel Hawkins

#Dad #Drinking #Doors
It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and it's over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.
-- Rachel Hawkins

#Loss #Thinking #People
Let's just say you may regret that second piece of cake. Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil.
-- Rachel Hawkins

#Regret #Cake #Evil
"Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.
-- Rachel Hawkins

#Knitting #Favorite Hobby #Ghouls
Whoa, I'm your girlfriend now?" Archer shrugged. "We've tried to kill each other, fought ghouls, and kissed a lot. I'm pretty sure we're married in some cultures.
-- Rachel Hawkins

#Girlfriend #Archer #Ghouls
I bet she woke up with her hair looking like something out of a Pantene commercial while little bluebirds circled around her head, and raccoons brought her breakfast or something.
-- Rachel Hawkins

#Hair #Bird #Breakfast

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.
This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.
The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
Itâ€™s a known fact that in certain contexts peopleâ€™s great strengths become their epic failings.
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.
I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.
The collateralized debt obligation, the CDO, is a structure which allows you to more or less continuously choose how much risk you want to take in a whole batch of securities. And the reason why they got us into so much trouble is that it's hard to figure out how much risk you really are taking.

Rachel Hawkins famous quotes

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