Elizabeth

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“The last thing a chef wants in a line cook is an innovator, somebody with ideas of his own who is going to mess around with the chef's recipes and presentations. Chefs require blind, near-fanatical loyalty, a strong back and an automaton-like consistency of execution under battlefield conditions.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“True fear has nothing to do with what might happen to you, however painful or vile that might be. True fear is all about what might happen to someone you love.”
― Erin Kellison, Shadow Bound

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud