Quotes for All
It’s promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it’s not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. … Read more
That’s silly, Anna, said the Honorable Olive. Being afraid is silly, you know it is. Eva Ibbotson
I don’t know anything about American history or presidents. I don’t know what tailgating is! I’ve never been to an Olive Garden! Emma Watson
I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Emeril Lagasse
You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil. Emeril Lagasse
Oh that’s lovely,\” said Bunny. \”Olive, you’ve got a date.\” \”Why would you say something so foolish?\” Olive asked, really annoyed. \”We’re two lonely people having supper.\” \”Exactly,\” said Bunny. \”That’s a date. Elizabeth Strout
Oh, gosh, Olive. I’m so embarrassed.\” \”No need to be,\” Olive tells her. \”We all want to kill someone at some point.\” (179) Elizabeth Strout
Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211) Elizabeth Strout
Olive’s private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as \”big bursts\” and \”little bursts.\” Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee’s, let’s … Read more
But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different. Elizabeth Strout