Kirkwood Quotes

“I'm not saying you're weak, but you brawl like a couple of girls having a pillow fight.”

“I'm not saying you're weak, but you brawl like a couple of girls having a pillow fight.”

“I had a quack in the floor. So, I had to use ductile.”

“People cheer on tyrants for fear of becoming targets.”

“There's no such thing as a sane woman.”

“In the evenings the family gathered at Kirkwood Hall. Sometimes Andrew cooked, sometimes Delphine. There was a bounty of vegetables from the kitchen garden: tiny patty-pan squash, radishes both peppery and sweet, beets striped deep magenta and white, golden and green, butter lettuce and spinach and peas, zucchini blossoms stuffed with Graham's mozzarella and salty anchovies. Delphine whipped eggs from the chickens into souffles. Chicken- from the chickens, sadly- were roasted in a Dutch oven or grilled under a brick. Plump strawberries from the fields and minuscule wild ones from the forest were served with a drizzle of balsamic syrup or a billow of whipped cream. Delphine's baking provided custardy tarts, flaky biscuits, and deep, dark chocolate cake.”

“Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink.”

“His heart beat so rapidly it might burst”