Ellie Alexander > Quotes

“My mom used to say, before, I met your father, that it's not about meeting the right guy - there are hundreds, thousands, of right guys in the world- it's figuring out the right one for you.”
― Ellie Alexander, Meet Your Baker

“True, but that’s the gift of memories, isn’t it? We filter out what we don’t need to carry with us, letting time and distance cleanse the rest.”
― Ellie Alexander, Meet Your Baker

“I passed a group of theater students or hippies (sometimes it’s hard to tell) sitting in a circle under an oak tree.”
― Ellie Alexander, Meet Your Baker

“...the gift of good writing, good storytelling, was allowing readers to temporarily inhabit someone else's soul. It's the only time in our lives when we actually live and breathe through another person's lens. Crack open the pages of any book and suddenly we're transported into a different world. My perspective had been expanded and altered thanks to the many pages of historical fiction and poetry that I had devoured. Stories had helped shape me, written by authors who had vastly different experiences than mine. Yet these writers welcomed me i not their worlds and allowed me to glimpse (even briefly) what life was like through their perspective. Books had shifted my understanding, offered me an opportunity to see myself in a different light.”
― Ellie Alexander, Lost Coast Literary

“Piecing together a murder was much more difficult than piecing together a cake.”
― Ellie Alexander, Meet Your Baker

“bakeshopmystery.com.”
― Ellie Alexander, Meet Your Baker

“Make a decision based on where you're at, at this moment in time. The choice you make tomorrow might be different, but it doesn't matter.”
― Ellie Alexander, Meet Your Baker

“Leah”
― Ellie Alexander, Beer and Loathing

“Instead of choosing to focus on fear, shift your perspective and focus on the beauty.”
― Ellie Alexander, Revenge on the Rocks

“The camera stared at me like a one-eyed robot, cold and unblinking. I stared back. The modern bullet-shaped contraption was out of place, anachronistic even, under the painted eaves of the century-old Victorian. Flower House was welcoming and cheerful, the front porch overflowing with barrels and boxes of many-hued flowers. The security camera was the opposite. I wrinkled my nose at the thing and stuck out my tongue. Feeling sassy, I also wiggled my hips in a childish dance of defiance.”
― Ellie Alexander, Cozy Case Files, Volume 15: A Cozy Mystery Sampler

“The way to keep people alive is through their memories. How could I keep someone alive who I'd never been given the chance to remember?”
― Ellie Alexander, Lost Coast Literary

“For a light and airy cake, it’s imperative that the egg yolks and sugar are slightly thickened before incorporating the chocolate. Mom”
― Ellie Alexander, On Thin Icing

“I always knew that you were going to make it. Sadly, in my line of work, I couldn't say that about many kids. But you, you had this spark and inner confidence that couldn't be shaken.”
― Ellie Alexander, The Pint of No Return

“I’ve always been good in the moment in an emergency. It’s the after where I tend to fall apart.”
― Ellie Alexander, The Body in the Bookstore

“As the Bard says, ‘Be just and fear not.”
― Ellie Alexander, Caught Bread Handed

“the train whistle when”
― Ellie Alexander, Cozy Case Files: A Cozy Mystery Sampler, Volume 1

“It should be known from the beginning, I am no flibbertigibbet. Nor am I inclined to the sorts of vapors which often envelop my half sister Sephora and cause her to swoon—usually when there is an attractive young man in the vicinity to offer assistance.”
― Ellie Alexander, Cozy Case Files, Volume 17: A Cozy Mystery Sampler

“It was the tiny moments like this that mattered. Letting the joy seep in. Embracing the now.”
― Ellie Alexander, Muffin But the Truth

“After losing a parent, I can tell you that the ache never heals. It changes with time, but I carry that loss, that lingering grief with me.”
― Ellie Alexander, Donut Disturb

“with”
― Ellie Alexander, A Crime of Passion Fruit

“One of the worst Oscar nods in history, if you ask me.” I”
― Ellie Alexander, Meet Your Baker

“IF MY HUSBAND didn’t die attempting this foolishness, I was going to kill him myself. It was a glorious spring afternoon on the banks of Lake Como, but my mind was on neither the weather nor the stunning views of the lake with its backdrop of hazy blue mountains that lay before me.”
― Ellie Alexander, Cozy Case Files: A Cozy Mystery Sampler, Volume 3

“Books had gotten me through my worst days.”
― Ellie Alexander, The Body in the Bookstore

“I’m reminded of these words: ‘I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings,”
― Ellie Alexander, Bake, Borrow, and Steal

“Her loss was a reminder for me to live fully in this moment, to drink in the vistas, to ground myself to the earth, and to hold tight to everyone I loved. We weren't promised tomorrow, so I intended to embrace today and all my future todays.”
― Ellie Alexander, Muffin But the Truth

“In a coffee shop. I smell coffee. I see coffee. I need coffee.”
― Ellie Alexander, Mocha, She Wrote

“Oregon Shakespeare Festival”
― Ellie Alexander, Cozy Case Files: A Cozy Mystery Sampler, Volume 1

“It’s weird how it sneaks up on you, grief.”
― Ellie Alexander, Another One Bites the Crust

“Lately, I was starting to realize that one of the reasons I’d blocked the possibility of love was that it was too painful to imagine losing someone I cared about again. But where did that leave me? Alone.”
― Ellie Alexander, The Body in the Bookstore

“One hundred percent.” Garrett repositioned his hat. It had our Nitro logo that used hop cones in place of the elements of an atom.”
― Ellie Alexander, Hold on for Beer Life