“Learn to trust your own instincts. A good cook needs only to have positive feelings about food in general, and about the pleasures of eating and cooking.”
― Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
― Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
“Sadie hated that word fine. It was a Band-Aid, a sugar-coated pill to mask the bitterness beneath. Fine was what you used when it was anything but. But fine was what she had to be because if it wasn’t, everything would unravel. Sadie so often walked the line between who people expected her to be and who she really was, the lines blurred until sometimes she forgot who she actually wanted to be. But”
― The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
― The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
“If you’re not tired, fish,” he said aloud, “you must be very strange.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“Some people needed flowers and pretty words. Sadie needed truth and kept promises. She finished getting ready, and on her way out the door, with coffee in hand, the clock chimed again.”
― The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
― The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
“Austen taught me a new kind of moral seriousness—taught me what moral seriousness really means. It means taking responsibility for the little world, not the big one. It means taking responsibility for yourself.”
― A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
― A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
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