an onion QUOTES

1 " Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins. "

2 " The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can't stop. "

― Laura Esquivel , Like Water for Chocolate

3 " Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter. "

― Kristen Heitzmann , Secrets (The Michelli Family Series #1)

4 " Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen. "

― Hermann Hesse , Steppenwolf

5 " I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the bottom of the laundry bag, or big things, like the best way to get a boy to chase you is to ignore him, or medium things, like if you cut an onion under running water your eyes won't sting, and if you wash your fingers afterwards with lemon-juice they won't stink.
I used to want to know all the secrets, and every time I learned one, I felt like I'd taken--a step. On a journey. To a place. A destination: to be the kind of person who knew all this stuff, the way everyone around me seemed to know all this stuff. I thought that once I knew enough secrets, I'd be like them. "

― Cory Doctorow , Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

6 " To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part. "

― Tamar Myers

7 " She’s like a cross between an onion and donkey,” Farah said.
“Why?” Jason and Connor asked simultaneously.
“Cause she’s a piece of ass that will bring a tear to your eye.” Farah laughed. "

― , Royal Decree (Jason Steed #4)

8 " Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight. "