Gillian

“There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.”
― M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

“But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.”
― M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

“It took me several years of such periods of being alone to learn how to care for myself, at least at table. I came to believe that since nobody else dared feed me as I wished to be fed, I must do it myself, and with as much aplomb as I could muster. Enough of hit-and-miss suppers of tinned soup and boxed biscuits and an occasional egg just because I had failed once more to rate an invitation!”
― M.F.K. Fisher