She shrugged her shoulders, then shifted her attention to the hand-labeled glass jars of honey. "Which one do you want to use?"
"Something mild to go with the cheese."
"The milkweed blossom?"
Isabel nodded. "We're probably the only ones who'll notice."
"The different flavors of honey have always been obvious to me," Jamie said.
"Not to me. I've had to train my palate. Same with wines. But I'm not a natural, but I love the alchemy of pairing flowers. If you were twenty-one and not pregnant, I'd give you a taste of this nice new sauvignon blanc from Angel Creek. It's going to go perfectly with the appetizers." She turned off the heat under the fried marcona almonds and gave the pan a shake.
"One sip," Jamie insisted, nibbling a bit of the goat cheese and honey on a cracker.
"One, young lady." Isabel poured a bit of the chilled white wine in a goblet and held it out to her.
Jamie savored a tiny sip, and smiled blissfully. "You're right. It's delicious."
Isabel took back the goblet. "Look at me, corrupting a minor.


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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a pa...
SUSAN SONTAG
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
SUSAN SONTAG
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us...
SUSAN SONTAG
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone n...
SUSAN SONTAG
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ...
SUSAN SONTAG
Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks differe...
SUSAN CHEEVER
What we need is to use what we have.
SUSAN SONTAG
Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG
Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.
SUSAN RABIN
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
SUSAN SONTAG
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized,...
SUSAN SONTAG
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and...
SUSAN SONTAG
Taste has no system and no proofs.
SUSAN SONTAG
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture...
SUSAN SONTAG
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves....
SUSAN SONTAG
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoo...
SUSAN ERTZ
To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
SUSAN BLOW
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
SUSAN JEFFERS
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG
We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
SUSAN CAIN
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o...
SUSAN SONTAG
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
SUSAN ERTZ
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr...
SUSAN RICE
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly...
SUSAN MINOT
If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur...
SUSAN RICE
Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I ...
SUSAN ORLEAN
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kind...
SUSAN SONTAG
Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide som...
SUSAN LIEBERMAN
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some oth...
SUSAN ESTRICH
You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th...
SUSAN EGAN
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou...
SUSAN GEORGE
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG
The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You...
SUSAN STRAIGHT
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG
I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human bei...
SUSAN HOWATCH
Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali...
SUSAN ESTRICH
Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI
I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell...
SUSAN ORLEAN
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability....
SUSAN SONTAG
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t...
SUSAN SONTAG
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
SUSAN SONTAG
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SUSAN SONTAG
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
SUSAN SONTAG
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
SUSAN SONTAG
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists...
SUSAN SONTAG
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
SUSAN SONTAG
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w...
SUSAN SONTAG
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
SUSAN SONTAG
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less intere...
SUSAN SONTAG
Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to ...
SUSAN CHEEVER
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the partic...
SUSAN ORLEAN
Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running w...
SUSAN LUCCI
Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, comm...
SUSAN VREELAND
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful ...
SUSAN CAIN
Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessive...
SUSAN CAIN
Advertising is very simple in a lot of ways. Advertisers go where the users go, and users are choosi...
SUSAN WOJCICKI
These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a biparti...
SUSAN COLLINS
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
SUSAN ANTON
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the s...
SUSAN SONTAG
Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when yo...
SUSAN ISAACS
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday aftern...
SUSAN ERTZ