The heart of hospitality is about creating space for someone to feel seen and heard and loved. It's about declaring your table a safe zone, a place of warmth and nourishment.

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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
MITCH ALBOM

He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS

I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS

There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS

I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS

No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS

He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS

I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I think the purest of souls, those with the most fragile of hearts, must be meant for a short life. ...
EMM COLE

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE No matter who you are, there is always a part somewhere deep inside your heart that wants to feel sa...
ELEANOR BROWNN I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To...
SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose...
BRYANT MCGILL I felt a numb shock as I drove home anxious to get my chocolate flowers and wondering how my mother ...
JORI NUNES I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel ...
MARTHA STEWART They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away...I disagree...I say a part of...
DANIEL YANEZ When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain.
NIKITA DUDANI Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN [Charlie is dying:]
After what seemed a long while, but hadn’t been, Marsh gave Paulette’s ...
EDWARD FAHEY Shauna and Val have been my teammates for a long time. I feel like I helped Shauna out a lot, especi...
JEAN PRAHM Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA From what we came from to what we've seen here ... it's like we left a war zone and came to a place ...
CHARLIENE GUIDRY Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE oh.
she heard it
too-no waters
coursing, canyon
empty, sun
soundless- ...
BARBARA BLATNER I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference...
BARBARA BLATNER blue-gold sky, fresh cloud,
emerald-black mountain, trees
on rocky ledges,

o...
BARBARA BLATNER ...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there, ...
BARBARA BLATNER The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivit...
LAURIE COLWIN Organization is all about space management. If you find the best way to maximize your space and desi...
MARK TEPE Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves ...
ALBERT CAMUS There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t...
SARAH J. MAAS Come on, Feyre. We don’t bite. Unless you ask us to.
SARAH J. MAAS My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.
SARAH J. MAAS If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over a...
SARAH J. MAAS We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
SARAH J. MAAS You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your min...
CASSANDRA CLARE A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Time is life.
Time for birth, time for death.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is ...
JAMES P. HOFFA The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
JESS C. SCOTT Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
PRATEEKSHA MALIK People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ...
FREDRIK BACKMAN When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No...
MILAN KUNDERA Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN your voice is a place i want to take shelter in, a place that makes me feel safe and soft.
ZAEEMA J. HUSSAIN The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.
ROB LIANO Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.
ALEX HALAVAIS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a fri...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down.
SARAH J. MAAS I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.
SARAH J. MAAS And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I fel...
SARAH J. MAAS I needed not to be dead when I agreed.”
“You needed not to be alone.
SARAH J. MAAS

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The heart of hospitality is about creating space for someone to feel seen and heard and loved. It's about declaring your table a safe zone, a place of warmth and nourishment.

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