“We were new then, our lives stretched out before us. Our families had let us go. Abbott had yet to find us. For this very short time, it would be just the two of us - just two kids.” — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“To him food was identity, culture, family, how you define home and love and who you are - all of it at once....It's not just the pie. It's the chemistry and physics. It's place and time and history and religion… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“Children. For all of the times that you miss out on things you'd like to do because of them, there are an equal number… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in the past.… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“I'd heard about the traffic accidnet on the radio after I'd dropped Abbot off at school. I heard about the accident, that there were… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“If fact, she mothers with such patience and grace that she's elegant, timelessly elegant. Ironically enough, one might even say that she has become… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“And there are certain moments in your life when something becomes clear, and other things in the past - things that your mind, unbeknownst… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions - but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161” — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.” — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“I'm the kind of Flying Wallenda who prays for a good net. That's all. Just a good net.” — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“We were new then, our lives stretched out before us. Our families had let us go. Abbott had yet to find us. For this… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“I love the way the French shove chocolate into everything. It's, like, the best nervous tic ever.” — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“...almost like they had sucked up all the air in the room, and I was left oxygen-deprived. But with Henry, I had air again,… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
“In America when someone asks me my nationality, I can't just say American. I have to go back generations, elaborate on there in Europe… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
