I spent the day stripping the purple out of my hair and…

“Margaret cleared her throat. 'Now, how long have you been baking?' 'For twelve years. Since I graduated from the CIA.' 'You learned to bake…

— Louise Miller

“Sharp-nosed and thin-lipped, with dark eyes framed by black plastic eyeglasses, haircut and shave long overdue. He felt familiar. Then I realized I was…

— Louise Miller

“Not making a decision is making a decision.”

— Louise Miller

“But you made it for Dotty. You should keep it in the family,' I said. Henry took my hands in his and leaned toward…

— Louise Miller

“Welcome to Guthrie.' 'What do you mean?' I asked. 'Where everybody knows everything but no one says a word.”

— Louise Miller

“You should always do what you can to make life sweeter.”

— Louise Miller

“Only a couple of weeks in the country and I was getting dangerously close to becoming what all chefs loathed—a vegetarian.”

— Louise Miller

“It’s not what happens to you but how you respond to it that matters.”

— Louise Miller

“You asked me what I thought about our friendship.' I nodded, wide-eyed. 'It makes me feel like I’m home.”

— Louise Miller

“People from the country ought to be at the forefront of humankind's struggle for kindness and equality, and yet, the situation is quite the…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Patricia Lovell up at the vicarage wants everything "vintage" themed this year. She wants it all 1950s Country Living style. You know the sort…

— Hannah Richell

“World is my Louisiana, I am its Mississippi.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“You can't leave the country that's within you.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied we are…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.”

— Kate Atkinson