The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir QUOTES

1 " To nature lovers, the season of new beginnings is the spring, but to people who excel in school, it's the fall. "

― Anne Fadiman , The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir

3 " Benjamin Franklin wrote that he would like to be embalmed in a cask of Madeira "

― Anne Fadiman , The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir

5 " Bordeaux are named after châteaux. Castles. "

― Anne Fadiman , The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir

7 " When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the pride he took in being able to pay for such a dinner, the convergence of his life as a writer and his life as an oenophile, the conviviality that grew as the night continued and everyone had a little too much to drink but not enough to impair the quality of the conversation, some of which, I feel sure, was about the wines themselves. "

― Anne Fadiman , The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir

9 " I have never met a miserly wine lover. "

― Anne Fadiman , The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir

11 " he never had fewer than seven jobs and at one point had thirteen. "

― Anne Fadiman , The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir

13 " Going through a dead parent's memorabilia is a hazardous undertaking; there is a fine line between pleasure and pain. "

― Anne Fadiman , The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir

15 " He simply could not imagine a time when being a Jew, or even a half Jew, was not a disability. "

― Anne Fadiman , The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir