Five Quarters of the Orange

Five Quarters of the Orange 

by Joanne Harris

 

 

 

 

"It took a little time but I got over it. I let go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home."

 

"The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right...It's the feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her."
 

"Drunkenness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverence. Joy. Gentleness."

“Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.” 

“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.”