Kitchen Quotes - Page 6

• Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Suicide, Girl Interrupted, Tragedy

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.37, Vintage

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• I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.

  William Boyd

  Common Humanity, Spy, One Day

  William Boyd (2009). “Restless”, p.278, A&C Black

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• I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into the kitchen and down the corridor.

  Markus Zusak

  Children, Night, Feet

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.274, Random House

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• The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Feelings, Arriving, Dinner

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Amy & Isabelle”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stars, Children, Believe

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.263, Vintage

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• Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Husband, Father, War

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.223, Dial Press

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• The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie sticks with the under-four-foot set. I cursed parents for not preparing their children. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon, and if I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash. I turned out okay.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Easter, Children

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.106, Portobello Books

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• I gave my mother a matching set [of mugs] for Christmas, and she accepted them as graciously as possible, announcing that they would make the perfect pet bowls. The mugs were set on the kitchen floor and remained there until the cat chipped a tooth and went on a hunger strike.

  David Sedaris

  Mother, Cat, Hunger Strike

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was biting it, but sucking it into his mouth. He did that when he was concentrating. It isn't sexy. He's not sexy. But he was, and she was staring at him like a fool. "wow" she whispered (.....)"Wow, huh?" His voice was low, husky. His chair creaked as he stood. His footsteps seemed strangely loud as he closed the couple yards between them. Then he was beside her. "I can work with wow

  Melissa Marr

  Sexy, Couple, Voice

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• He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk — that anything — could give him so much happiness.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Children, Home

  "A Christmas carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas: With original art and narration by Jon Langford".

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• Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Jobs, Wall

  Charles Bukowski, “Pull A String, A Puppet Moves”

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• The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Fall, Weather

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Talking, Littles, Hungry

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• I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

  Charles Bukowski

  Dirty, Looks, Stories

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• You’d have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!’.

  Patricia Polacco

  Hug, Different, Four

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• normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.

  Dave Barry

  Peanut Butter, Lists, Normal

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term.

  Eoin Colfer

  Believe, Caviar, Term

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis Fowl: the arctic incident”, Viking

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• I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

  P. D. James

  Commitment, Guilt, Tables

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.40, Vintage

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• Oh baby," he whispers. Steps back. Out of the doorway. His face ashen. He walks slowly back to the kitchen. Leans over the counter. Puts his head in his hands. His hair falls over his fingers. The bathroom door clicks shut. She stays there for a long time. He's pulling his hair out.

  Lisa McMann

  Baby, Fall, Hair

  "Fade". Book by Lisa McMann, books.google.ru. August 5, 2010.

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• So Henry," Puck said as he kicked off his shoes and propped his smelly feet on the kitchen table. "I was wondering what you can tell me about puberty." Henry turned pale and stammered. Sabrina wanted to crawl under the table and die.

  Michael Buckley

  Shoes, Feet, Puck

  Michael Buckley (2011). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War”, p.265, Abrams

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• And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Home, Night, Appreciate

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• Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Together, Rags

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.41, Anchor

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• My father was in the kitchen putting a new washer in the kitchen faucet. He looked relieved to see Morelli standing in the hallway. He'd probably prefer I bring home someone useful, like a butcher or a car mechanic, but I guess cops are a step up from undertakers.

  Janet Evanovich

  Father, Home, Car

  Janet Evanovich (2001). “Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Vices, Flavor, Sauce

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --

  Sylvia Plath

  Light, Sky, Desire

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