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“I have standards. Well, okay, they're love standards, but I have them.”

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Rachel Vail, born in 1966, is an American author known for her works in children's literature, particularly young adult novels. Her books are highly appreciated for their rich imagination and profound emotional expression. more

“I keep looking for ultimate answers, but maybe there aren't any or maybe I'm not looking in the right places, because in the section marked ANSWERS in the back of my geometry book, there's only a bunch of numbers, and all I can find to stare at in the refrigerator is five carrots and a jar of no-fat mayonnaise.”

I Can Book Answers Numbers Five Ultimate Bunch Fats Staring Sections Right Place Geometry Jars Refrigerators Carrots Mayonnaise

Author:Rachel Vail

“Great point made in son's college orientation re sex/safety/respect/etc: 'Consent is really too low a bar. Hold out for enthusiasm.'”

Lows Bars Enthusiasm Consent

Author:Rachel Vail

“Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.”

Criminals Gods Will Fulfillment Heroic Justified Atrocities Conqueror

Book:The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

Source: The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

“Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.”

People Long Care Don't Care Don't Change

Book:The Spellsong War: The Second Book of the Spellsong Cycle

Source: The Spellsong War: The Second Book of the Spellsong Cycle

“In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.”

Century Russia Nineteenth Century Caviar Sauerkraut

Book:Salt: A World History

Source: Salt: A World History

“THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.”

Believe Natural Bitterness Salad

Book:Salt: A World History

Source: Salt: A World History

“The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.”

Constant Salt Warfare

Book:Salt: A World History

Source: Salt: A World History

“A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.”

Complexes Prose Portraits Haiti Great Experiences

Author:Mark Kurlansky

“A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.”

Knows Want Should Share Food Expensive Gourmet

Book:Choice Cuts

Source: Choice Cuts

“Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.”

People Able Games Poor Rich Food Judging Regard Poor People Potatoes Gourmet

Book:Choice Cuts

Source: Choice Cuts

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