“Breakfast is the only meal of the day that I tend to view with the same kind of traditionalized reverence that most people associate with Lunch and Dinner. I like to eat breakfast alone, and almost never before noon; anybody with a terminally jangled lifestyle needs at least one psychic anchor every twenty-four hours, and mine is breakfast. In Hong Kong, Dallas or at home — and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chiles, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert… Right, and there should also be two or three newspapers, all mail and messages, a telephone, a notebook for planning the next twenty-four hours and at least one source of good music… All of which should be dealt with outside, in the warmth of a hot sun, and preferably stone naked.”
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Hunter S. Thompson
“It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.” ― Pope Benedict XVI
“Good night, Lisa. Sleep with the angels."Her eyes stung from quick tears. It had been her mother's nightly benediction: Sleep with the angels. But then he added words her mother never had: "Then come back to earth and sleep with your devil, who would burn in hell for one night in your arms.” ― Karen Marie Moning, The Highlander's Touch
“Her quietude was not weakness; it was an ardent watchfulness that would be replaced by a roar when required.” ― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein
“Mary is a woman who loves. How could it be otherwise? As a believer who in faith thinks with God's thoughts and wills with God's will, she cannot fail to be a woman who loves. We sense this in her quiet gestures, as recounted by the infancy narratives in the Gospel. We see it in the delicacy with which she recognizes the need of the spouses at Cana and makes it known to Jesus. We see it in the humility with which she recedes into the background during Jesus' public life, knowing that the Son must establish a new family and that the Mother's hour will come only with the Cross, which will be Jesus' true hour (cf. Jn 2:4; 13:1). When the disciples flee, Mary will remain beneath the Cross (cf. Jn 19:25-27); later, at the hour of Pentecost, it will be they who gather around her as they wait for the Holy Spirit (cf. Acts 1:14).” ― Pope Benedict XVI, God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est
“... it occurred to me that we are all unreliable narrators of our own lives, crafting stories about ourselves that omit unsavory truths and highlight our invented identities.” ― Marie Benedict, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
“The deeper we each read, the more we would understand about this world” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“while the first step is the hardest, the second isn’t much easier.” ― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein
“I still believe. I still believe that someday there will be equality in this country. That someday there will be a new civil rights act, and a new president and Congress to enforce it. That everyone will be able to follow their dream, regardless of race. That those words about the equality of men in the Declaration of Independence will be true.” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and condemnation and survived, smiling. These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger. •” ― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein
“One day, Belle, we will be able to reach back through the decades and claim you as one of our own. Your accomplishments will be part of history; they’ll show doubtful white people what colored people can do. Until that time, live your life proudly.” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“This moment in time, shimmering and blissful, was hard to relinquish.” ― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein
“Changing your name is easy. Changing your soul is impossible.” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it.” ― Louise Penny, The Nature of the Beast
“Never apologize for intellectual curiosity or the appreciation of fine art, Miss Greene.” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“The tie between parent and child is unbreakable, despite the sort of relationship they actually shared.” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“Katherine Mary, we're going to know each other very wel, for many years, I hope. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life. Your sergeant coming home, a good dinner, your little Mary laughing, the smell of the woods- oh, so many things, you know them yourself.” ― Benedict Freedman, Mrs. Mike
“As Mrs. Barrett Browning says, ‘The world of books is still the world.” ― Marie Benedict, Carnegie's Maid
“Perhaps this was mankind’s fate—to learn that none of our paths were as straight as we believed they would be.” ― Marie Benedict, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
“It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.” ― Pope Benedict XVI
“Good night, Lisa. Sleep with the angels."Her eyes stung from quick tears. It had been her mother's nightly benediction: Sleep with the angels. But then he added words her mother never had: "Then come back to earth and sleep with your devil, who would burn in hell for one night in your arms.” ― Karen Marie Moning, The Highlander's Touch
“Her quietude was not weakness; it was an ardent watchfulness that would be replaced by a roar when required.” ― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein
“Mary is a woman who loves. How could it be otherwise? As a believer who in faith thinks with God's thoughts and wills with God's will, she cannot fail to be a woman who loves. We sense this in her quiet gestures, as recounted by the infancy narratives in the Gospel. We see it in the delicacy with which she recognizes the need of the spouses at Cana and makes it known to Jesus. We see it in the humility with which she recedes into the background during Jesus' public life, knowing that the Son must establish a new family and that the Mother's hour will come only with the Cross, which will be Jesus' true hour (cf. Jn 2:4; 13:1). When the disciples flee, Mary will remain beneath the Cross (cf. Jn 19:25-27); later, at the hour of Pentecost, it will be they who gather around her as they wait for the Holy Spirit (cf. Acts 1:14).” ― Pope Benedict XVI, God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est
“... it occurred to me that we are all unreliable narrators of our own lives, crafting stories about ourselves that omit unsavory truths and highlight our invented identities.” ― Marie Benedict, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
“The deeper we each read, the more we would understand about this world” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“while the first step is the hardest, the second isn’t much easier.” ― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein
“I still believe. I still believe that someday there will be equality in this country. That someday there will be a new civil rights act, and a new president and Congress to enforce it. That everyone will be able to follow their dream, regardless of race. That those words about the equality of men in the Declaration of Independence will be true.” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and condemnation and survived, smiling. These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger. •” ― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein
“One day, Belle, we will be able to reach back through the decades and claim you as one of our own. Your accomplishments will be part of history; they’ll show doubtful white people what colored people can do. Until that time, live your life proudly.” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“This moment in time, shimmering and blissful, was hard to relinquish.” ― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein
“Changing your name is easy. Changing your soul is impossible.” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it.” ― Louise Penny, The Nature of the Beast
“Never apologize for intellectual curiosity or the appreciation of fine art, Miss Greene.” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“The tie between parent and child is unbreakable, despite the sort of relationship they actually shared.” ― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian
“Katherine Mary, we're going to know each other very wel, for many years, I hope. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life. Your sergeant coming home, a good dinner, your little Mary laughing, the smell of the woods- oh, so many things, you know them yourself.” ― Benedict Freedman, Mrs. Mike
“As Mrs. Barrett Browning says, ‘The world of books is still the world.” ― Marie Benedict, Carnegie's Maid
“Perhaps this was mankind’s fate—to learn that none of our paths were as straight as we believed they would be.” ― Marie Benedict, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
