Packet Quotes

“Anything could be endured, she had discovered, if she could only package the time into discrete little packets. She imagined taking the minutes, each one like a pellet, and wrapping them up - one minute, five minutes, fifteen, thirty. Once she had managed to survive a full hour, she could put the packets of time into a box, tie it with string, and push it down a conveyor belt. Just one more minute, one more hour, one more day.”

“Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.”

“Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.”

“Life is like a cigarette and the world is a cigarette packet...!!!”

“I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin.”

“Curse you, cheap beer. Must find miso in tiny packet.”

“A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!”

“I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.”

“A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.”