Erica Bauermeister > Quotes

“Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“They said - Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.”
― Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners

“We sat in silence, letting the green in the air heal what it could.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“I think love is kind of like those waves out there," she said. "You ride one in to the beach, and it's the most amazing thing you've ever felt. But at some point the water goes back out; it has to. And maybe you're lucky-maybe you're both too busy to do anything drastic. Maybe you're good as friends, so you stay. And then something happens-maybe it's something as big as a baby, or as small as him unloading the dishwasher-and the wave comes back in again. And it does that, over and over. I just think sometimes people forget to wait.”
― Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners

“I used to know a sculptor... He always said that if you looked hard enough, you could see where each person carried his soul in his body. It sounds crazy, but when you saw his sculptures, it made sense. I think the same is true with those we love... Our bodies carry our memories of them, in our muscles, in our skin, in our bones. My children are right here." She pointed to the inside curve of her elbow. "Where I held them when they were babies. Even if there comes a time when I don't know who they are anymore. I believe I will feel them here.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“The name for the cocoa tree is theobroma, which means "food of the gods." I know that chocolate is meant for us, however, because the melting point for good chocolate just happens to be the temperature within your very human mouth.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“If you live in your sense, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you’ll never need a greeting card to make you remember.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot but she was so strong, so compassionate. I asked her how she could be the way she was, and you know what she told me?"

Hadley shook her head.

"She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.”
― Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners

“We are all just ingredients, Tom What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“Scents were like rain, or birds. They left and came back.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“Being around her, he found even every day experiences were deeper, nuanced. Satisfaction and awareness slipped in between the layers of life like love notes hidden in the pages of a textbook.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“When she realized that there are many kinds of love and not all of them are obvious. That some wait like presents in the back of the closet until you are able to open them.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“but that was the beauty of books, wasn’t it? They took you places you didn’t know you needed to go.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“We're all caretakers of the stories, Alice. Writers are just the lucky ones that get to know them first.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“I've been wondering," Isabelle commented reflectively over dessert, "if it is foolish to make new memories when you know you are going to lose them.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients

“She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes--a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.”
― Erica Bauermeister

“Irreversible decisions are good for the soul, word lady.”
― Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners

“Because people want their bodies to smell like oceans they’ll never have time to visit. They wear a perfume that promises sex, when all they really want is someone to snuggle on the couch with in baggy pajamas. We’ll all choose a good story over the truth any day.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“Suddenly she was seeing the buds on the cherry trees around her; she could feel the energy packed within them, a bouquet of fireworks whose fuse had already been lit. She could smell them, too, a subtle essence of pink and lollipops, the sweetness deepened by the scent of the slowly warming earth below them.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Lost Art of Mixing

“Picking up a book was a decision: I’m going to go away. The exciting possibility: I may not come back the same.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“Breath is life in”
― Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners

“It’s amazing how easily we can cast ourselves in the role of hero.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“The kids threw the rumors out like lit matches, to see what would catch. I stayed silent, listening to the fizz and spark of their words, pretending I was water, putting them out.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“No two persons ever read the same book, or saw the same picture. The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1860”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“We humans are almost entirely made of water, except for the stones of our secrets. May mine become solid places to land your feet as you cross the wide river of your life.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“She'd be okay, he told himself, and he needed to be somewhere else. Somewhere so completely else that the grief wouldn't find him. Ignoring the fact that grief is not a stalker but a stowaway, always there and up for any journey.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“You're not traveling if you already know everything.”
― Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners