"Would she sit on the right or on the left? Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter."

                                                                             ~The Beautiful and Damned
                                                                                            (Fitzgerald)

Boner.

"It's so beautifully arranged on the plate.... you know someone's fingers has been all over it."

                                                                                  ~Julia Child

                                                                                 

                                                                                 

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." 

~Camus

"By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better."

                                                                                              ~ A Moveable Feast  

                                                                                                     (Hemingway)