Amy

“The scrubby, grim little kitchen of a Tiny Flat in the East End can be an absolute paradise, and everything in it can be tinged with glory, because for this minute we are alive, and looking, and that is as much as anyone can ask for.”
― Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For

“I love recipes like this, reading them and making them. There’s something brilliant about a recipe that doesn’t ask too much of you; a recipe, in fact, where getting it exactly right would be exactly wrong; a recipe you can fiddle with, and tend to when you remember.”
― Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For

“I would like to have something to believe in, but it is difficult. Everything my generation was promised got blown away like clouds of smoke curling from the ends of cigarettes in the mouths of politicians and bankers. It is hard not to be cynical and critical of everything, and yet perhaps there is an opening, too. When the present begins to fracture, there is room for the future to be written.”
― Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

“Work jumped from being a means of “material production” to being much more about “identity production.”3 In other words, work used to be about making things. Then all of a sudden, work was about making us.”
― Jefferson Bethke, To Hell with the Hustle: Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World