“Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. the water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.” IfsThinkingChildrenI CanDifferentFatherWaterLike YouOceanBirdRaisedEggsChickensSwimScareInterfereDestinedHomelandThink Of MeHensDucklings Author:Elif Safak
“With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.” HandsWaterDarkRichCarWindowEmptyGoldEggsCracksBottlesNow And ThenMineralsFlingDazzlingDelhiWater BottlesBanglesMineral Water Book:The White Tiger Source: The White Tiger
“If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.” IfsBelieveWellsWarMightEarthJesusWaterRichCuttingDyingTaxesLaysTortureEggsIf You BelieveTax CutsBunniesMigrantsGood Words Author:Bill Maher
“An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.” WaterCan DoJewEggsCreamBrooklyn Author:Mel Brooks
“I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.” FacesWaterMorningHotRoseOilGet UpEggsRoutineToastsLemonsHot WaterMorning Routines Author:Alice Temperley
“He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.” MenWantGivingLooksWarCountryEnoughBigsHouseBitsWaterDarkBehindsHe ManBedBirdWindowSickHotDown AndCornersStreamsChairsEggsOld ManCoveredSaltLoadPotatoesBlanketSunnyBucketsRagsStinkOnionsHot WaterArmchairsMashed PotatoesBirds ChirpingBoers Book:Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Source: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir