"He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions."

-- Robert South

#Despair Quotes #Littles Quotes #Limits Quotes

“I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.”
“What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But I am not constantly pointing my finger and criticizing things that are a country's internal affairs.”
“But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.”
“He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like as if a door had been unlocked and she'd been let outside, she said to me I'm safe now. He waits, and he says this kid, when it's born, you mustn't ever let it think it's anything other than a gift and a blessing, do you hear me?”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”
“Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.”
“I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.”

Source : Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.134, Macmillan
“My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!”

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