Jessica Parra > Quotes

“Two silhouettes blocked out the hard sun. The shapes came into focus as my vision adjusted to the light. One of them revealed itself to be a longboard. The other, the smoking-hot, dripping-wet guy who’d surfed it.”
― Jessica Parra , Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success

“Baking needs to be a marriage of both substance and style. You cannot sacrifice one for another.”
― Jessica Parra, Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success: A Novel

“I was born on an island that stripped me of my family and my dreams, Rubi.... This country gave a family back to me, but my dreams.... I gave them up for you. So you could become everything I couldn't.”
― Jessica Parra, Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success: A Novel

“The walls between who I was and who I needed to become began to crumble again. Only this time, when the walls fell, I saw both those things could coexist. With the rubble of them at my feet, a lightness swept over me. As different parts of different dreams combined with one another, a wholeness I'd never felt before filled my body.”
― Jessica Parra, Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success: A Novel

“People were always so afraid of nightmares. Never realized it was dreams they needed to be on the lookout for.”
― Jessica Parra, Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success: A Novel

“For forever I'd thought duty and passion were like oil and water. And never the twain shall mix. But maybe they didn't need to be mixed; maybe it was better to fold them over one another, like layers of a croissant or the rings of a Rosca. Maybe they could even be the same thing.”
― Jessica Parra, Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success: A Novel