City Baker S Guide Quotes

“Hannah, clutching a bouquet of sunflowers to her chest like she had just won the Mrs. Coventry County pageant, found me in an herbalist's tent, rubbing lavender-scented lotion into my palms. I leaned over to her. 'They should name this Eau de Grandmother.”
― Louise Miller

“Not making a decision is making a decision.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“Sharp-nosed and thin-lipped, with dark eyes framed by black plastic eyeglasses, haircut and shave long overdue. He felt familiar. Then I realized I was remembering a man in a Walker Evans photograph taken during the Dust Bowl.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“Margaret cleared her throat. 'Now, how long have you been baking?'

'For twelve years. Since I graduated from the CIA.'

'You learned to bake from the government?' She scowled.

'No, no, it’s a culinary school in New York.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“Welcome to Guthrie.'

'What do you mean?' I asked.

'Where everybody knows everything but no one says a word.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“Only a couple of weeks in the country and I was getting dangerously close to becoming what all chefs loathed—a vegetarian.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“I spent the day stripping the purple out of my hair and redyeing it—Manic Panic Electric Tiger Lily. The jar promised it would glow under a black light, but somehow I didn’t think the grange hall was going to turn the lights off and get funky.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“You should always do what you can to make life sweeter.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“You asked me what I thought about our friendship.'

I nodded, wide-eyed.

'It makes me feel like I’m home.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“But you made it for Dotty. You should keep it in the family,' I said.

Henry took my hands in his and leaned toward me. 'That’s what I’m doing.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“It’s not what happens to you but how you respond to it that matters.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living