Unprofound

Food writing is a coveted job among culinary fanatics across the nation. I mean, who hasn’t picked up a copy of Bon Appétit or pulled up the New York Times food blogs and thought, wouldn’t it be

“‘I don’t want to take your bed, Henry,’ I said.
‘Where are you going to sleep?’
‘One of the back rooms has a bed that folds out from the wall,’ said Henry. ‘I can’t think what they’re called. I’ve never slept in it before.’
‘Then why don’t you let me sleep there?’
‘No. I am rather curious to see what it is like. Besides, I think it’s good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams.’”

—The Secret History by Donna Tartt

“I slammed out of the Priest Hole and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”

—Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

“Don’t be defeatist dear, it’s very middle class.”

—Downton Abbey

“As it happened, I knew Gartell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word ‘postmodernist.’”

—The Secret History by Donna Tartt

“Beauty is rarely soft and consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”

—The Secret History by Donna Tartt