Kitchen table Quote by Howard Jacobson

“Who didn’t bother emptying the dishwasher but just stuck a bowl on the top for the tidying-up fairy to deal with.”

— Kerry Fisher

“I was lounging in the kitchen, enjoying the small fermata between emptying the dishwasher and reloading it. It's a glamorous life.”

— Abbi Waxman

“The whole bathhouse had been given over to laundry, which never struck Steffie as a good idea, what with who knows who having been…

— Rosemary Kirstein

“Its not that he didn’t appreciate his dishwasher. There was something about washing dishes by hand that was therapeutic, as if he could wash…

— James L. Rubart

“Could she stick her hand in that sink? Did she dare put in the drain plug? Every time she moved toward it, she shrank…

— Vanessa Wolf

“The heap of dirty dishes was normal for Arthur, who had applied for a reduction in his water rate on the grounds that he…

— Julian Barnes

“The Dweller Under the Sink had still not come out to eat but was probably living a secret and important life by himself.”

— Tove Jansson

“She hops expectantly into the sink. I turn on the tap for her; she laps without a glance in my direction, like a duchess…

— Peter Trachtenberg

“We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table…

— Ishmael Beah

“...as soon as I saw the three-bin stainless steel pot sink, exactly like ours, I felt instantly at home and fell into peeling potatoes…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

“No one understood why she had not died of hunger until the Indians, who were aware of everything, for they went ceaselessly about the…

— Gabriel García Márquez