Gaby

“Like most humans, I am hungry...our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it...”
― M.F.K. Fisher, The Gastronomical Me

“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”
― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

“Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Traits don't change, states of mind do.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge