Leslie

“It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.”
― John Krakauer, Into the Wild

“A French portion is half of an American portion, and a French meal takes twice as long to eat. You do the math.”
― Elizabeth Bard, Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes

“My inner control freak had taken the day off... I had descended from the mountain of the perfect, into the valley of the possible, and was now on the happy shaded trail, dappled with sunlight, of the present. It was the most wonderful walk of my life.”
― Elizabeth Bard, Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes

“The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Midwife's Confession