Kate Tedman

“We live in rooms haunted by ourselves.”
― Vincent Deary, How We Are

“Such as I was, I have declared myself; sometimes vile and despicable, at others, virtuous, generous and sublime.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“bread pudding recipe when we left, and I’m going to throw it in because it’s the best bread pudding I’ve ever eaten. It tastes like caramelized mush. Cream 2 cups sugar with 2 sticks butter. Then add 2 ½ cups milk, one 13-ounce can evaporated milk, 2 tablespoons nutmeg, 2 tablespoons vanilla, a loaf of wet bread in chunks and pieces (any bread will do, the worse the better) and 1 cup raisins. Stir to mix. Pour into a deep greased casserole and bake at 350° for 2 hours, stirring after the first hour. Serve warm with hard sauce.”
― Nora Ephron, Heartburn

“And you, mother, stood behind me,
impatient to be going,
old at twenty-three, alone,
thin overcoat flapping.”
― Brian Patten, Armada