“Do you miss home? Awa asked. “Home is where you find comfort” John replied.”
― A Tudor Turk
― A Tudor Turk
“But there's always time for hot chocolate, made with milk and grated nutmeg, vanilla, chili, brown sugar, cardamom, and 70 percent couverture chocolate- the only chocolate worth buying, she says- and it tastes rich and just slightly bitter on the back of the tongue, like caramel as it begins to turn. The chili gives it a touch of heat- never too much, just a taste- and the spices give it that churchy smell that reminds me of Lansquenet somehow, and of nights above the chocolate shop, just Maman and me, with Pantoufle sitting to one side and candles burning on the orange-box table.”
― The Girl with No Shadow
― The Girl with No Shadow
“No, she felt homesick, not for a place, but for a time. Maybe it wasn't homesickness at all. Maybe it was timesickness. She just missed those days when she was younger - seven, six, five, four years old - when she didn't know so much about the world. She missed, most of all, her mother.”
― The Girl Who Saved Christmas
― The Girl Who Saved Christmas
“There is something so comforting, so soothing about a mug of hot chocolate. No matter how old I am, I think chocolat chaud will always have the ability to take me back to special times, when all of the world's problems seemed to melt away by consuming one simple beverage.”
― My Secret Guide to Paris
― My Secret Guide to Paris
“Not all of us have that luxury, of a past. My history doesn't offer me much in that respect.”
― Travelers
― Travelers
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