#tea

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it. ↗

— Irene Tomkinson

#learning #listening #maturity #teaching #family

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours." ↗

— Arthur Gray

#tea #family

I observed the sky darken gradually, slowly, from light blue to pitch black with only one constant factor –the clouds. The road to Cairo wasn’t considered long –around two and a half hours—but it didn’t seem like that since I was longing to get as far as ever possible from the place where danger was present. If it was only my life that was at stake, I wouldn’t have thrown much of a fit about the whole deal. But even if I had chosen to be some sort of a suicidal psych, I couldn’t put another soul into the equation. It wasn’t her fault I had failed her and was probably the reason we were in the situation we were in. Trying to fix what I had done by giving up to the danger we were surrounded by was yet another way to fail her, myself and most importantly, our parents. One day, I, Damien Theophilus the Second, would avenge my family’s murder. And I couldn’t care less about the how’s or the when’s; all I could care about was the final result. This was more personal than a mere attack on our kingdom. ↗

— Mariam Maarouf

#family

When may did so, he found every cup and saucer, plate, vase, and bowl standing arranged across the floor like pieces in a scaled-up chess game. "The Whitstable family tree," Bryant explained, entering and setting down his tea tray. "It's the only way I could get it sorted out in my head. I had to see them properly laid out, who was descended from whom." He pointed to a milk jug. "Daisy Whitstable is bottom left-hand corner, by the fireguard. Next to her is the egg cup, brother Tarquin... Now, pass me Marion and Alfred Whitstable over there." "What's their significance?" "We need them to drink out of. ↗

— Christopher Fowler

#tea #family

I’d rather fake my own fog, than fake a steamy love scene. Can I interest you in some mist? It’s homemade.
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— Jarod Kintz

#fog #food #homemade #love #love-scene

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#high #mexico #plateau

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#food

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative. ↗

— Michelle Sagara West

#food #kaylin-neya #sanabalis #students #teacher

Grow a garden. When there’s a food shortage in the future, you’ll need it. And when people try to steal your food and you shoot them, you’ll also need a good place to hide the bodies. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#body #death #food #food-shortage #future

When she offered me a spot of tea, I said, “No thanks, I’ve already got a spot of tea on my shirt.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #hospitality #humor #random #random-thought