“It’s strange, she thought, how recipes outlive the people that wrote them and yet they almost bring a part of that person back to life, as if a tiny piece of their soul lives in those instructions.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which way the stems unfurl, but if you help them climb you get the pleasure of watching them flourish.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“she longed for home, to hide the part of her that had been seen. •”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“Over the years you will both inevitably change but you will always have one thing in common, and that is that you’re both only human, so try to be kind.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
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