"Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context."

“I'm a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan.”

“To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.”

Source : Carter Heyward (2010). “The Redemption of God: A Theology of Mutual Relation”, p.225, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.”

Source : Diary entry in 1898. "Painting in the Twentieth Century, an Analysis of the Artists and Their Work". Book by Werner Haftmann, p. 82, 1966.

“I will have but one mistress and no master”

“I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.”

“I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.”

“If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.”

“Cooking isn’t taught,” Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?” I pressed the knife down through the tomato; it split in two, each half rocking gently on the cutting board. “You tell me. Am I ready for chemistry?” Patch made a deep sound I couldn’t decipher and grinned.”