Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

“New Rule: You're never going to pick up women at a coffee shop pretending to be working on your laptop. You don't look like you're sensitive, you look like you're homeless.The last guy to pick up a chick with an Apple was Adam. And when you sit across from another dateless loser with a laptop, it still doesn't look like you're working--it looks like you're playing Battleship.”
― Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“Nothing belongs to itself anymore.
These trees are yours because you once looked at them.
These streets are yours because you once traversed them.
These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bars, their sole owner is you.
They gave themselves so willingly, surrendering to your perfume.
You sang with the birds and they stopped to listen to you.
You smiled at the sheepish stars and they fell into your hair.
The sun and moon, the sea and mountain, they have all left from heartbreak.
Nothing belongs to itself anymore.
You once spoke to Him, and then God became yours.
He sits with us in darkness now
to plot how to make you ours.â€� K.K.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I’m mesmerized by lipstick prints on coffee cups.

By the lines of lips against white pottery. By the color chosen by the woman who sat and sipped and lived life. By the mark she leaves behind. Some people read tea leaves and others can tell your future through the lines on your palm. I think I’d like to read lipstick marks on coffee mugs.

To learn how to differentiate yearning from satiation. To know the curve of a deep-rooted joy or the line of bottomless grief. To be able to say, this deep blue red you chose and how firmly you planted your lips, this speaks of love on the horizon. But, darling, you must be sure to stand in your own truth. That barely-there nude that circles the entire rim? You are exploding into lightness and possibilities beyond what you currently know. The way the gloss only shows when the light hits it and the coffee has sloshed all over the saucer? people need to take the time to see you whole but my god, you’re glorious and messy and wonderful and free. The deep purple bruise almost etched in a single spot and most of the cup left unconsumed? Oh love. Let me hold the depth of your ache. It is true. He’s not coming back. I know you already know this, but do you also know this is not the end? Love. This is not the end.

I imagine that I can know entire stories by these marks on discarded mugs. Imagine that I know something intimate and true of the woman who left them. That I could take those mugs home one day and an entire novel worth of characters would pour out, just like that.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Sitting there, in the coffee house, I saw so many stories behind the lips of people who had left them untold.”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“You must work to live, not live to work.”
― Jane Green, Bookends

“I am not a people pleaser. I am not a person who says things because she thinks it will make the other person happy, nor am I a person who offers things she cannot deliver because I want the other person to like me.”
― Jane Green, Bookends

“One must savor the coffee, to actually have it.”
― Mohith Agadi

“For wasn't it just a matter of time before we crossed each other's path?
Despite all the hoopla, wasn't Manhattan just ten miles long and a mile or two wide? So in the days that followed, I kept an eye out, I looked for his figure on the street corners and in the coffee shops. I imagined coming home and having him emerge once more from the doorway across the street. But as the weeks turned into months, and the months into years, this sense of anticipation waned, and slowly but surely, I stopped expecting to see him in a crowd.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“If opportunity knocks, let it in. But with the way things are nowadays-I'd rather meet opportunity somewhere that's more public. I could meet opportunity in a coffee shop, but what if it works there? Well, I could suggest my grandma's basement.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz”
― James Lee Schmidt, liQUID PROse QUOtes

“Forever feels a long time when you're eighteen. When you're away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant friendships that are so strong they are destined, surely, to be with you until the bitter end.”
― Jane Green, Bookends

“If you want to talk about it with someone, then I`m happy to listen, or try and help, but you should only tell me if you want to.”
― Jane Green, Bookends

“That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.”
― Jane Green, Bookends

“A coffee at Coffee Club had gone down well, and for a few minutes she lost herself in the steaming warmth, latte smell and the taste of milk froth on her tongue.”
― Ellen Read, When Jacarandas Bloom

“Caffeine suspends hopelessness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The small surge of pride I felt before has gotten bigger. It's also mixed with something else now, too, though. I realize it's excitement. Sure, these people could all just be saying they want to check out Cup o' Jo and never actually make the trip, but still, it seems like something? And something is better than nothing.”
― Katie Cicatelli-Kuc, Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice

“Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another.”
― Neal Stephenson

“Seamus, don’t jump!”
― Josie Riviera, Oh Danny Boy

“A sip of coffee is my eternity.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Me brewing up increasingly ridiculous and colorful sweet coffees for Seth to try. Unicorn lattes with sprinkles and peaked whipped cream horns. Chocolate-chocolate-chip mochas with lumps of half-melted Hershey's bars floating in them.”
― Amanda Elliot, Love You a Latke

“Against the burr of multiple grinders and blenders going at once, a blockade of thirsty patrons watch the baristas furiously topping off drinks with pumps of syrup or oat milk, silently praying their hit of caffeine comes next.”
― Etta Easton, The Kiss Countdown