“There are two things you should never do with your father: learn how to drive and learn how to kill a chicken.” — Gabrielle Hamilton Parenting Copy Share Image
My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you… — Gabrielle Hamilton Attention Copy Share Image
“[I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.” — Gabrielle Hamilton Blood Copy Share Image
I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in… — Gabrielle Hamilton Car Copy Share Image
“It became such a recurring experience during this period when I was twenty -- to be starving and afraid of running out… — Gabrielle Hamilton Desire Copy Share Image
“For the first time in probably the entire decade that had passed since I had seen or spoken to my own mother,… — Gabrielle Hamilton First time Copy Share Image
It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family… — Gabrielle Hamilton Absence Copy Share Image
“I had always wanted to contribute in some way. Leave a little more than I took.” — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Each housing development has a "country" name - Squirrel Valley, Pine Ridge, Eagle crossing, Deer Path, which has an unkind way of… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“But it was from him - with his cool, long sideburns and aviator sunglasses, and box of watercolor paints (and artist's paycheck)… — Gabrielle Hamilton Art Copy Share Image
“I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing… — Gabrielle Hamilton Birth Copy Share Image
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely,… — Gabrielle Hamilton Effort Copy Share Image
“That is my favorite kind of integrated person. Some of each thing and not too much of any one.” — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“So what is there to make of the simplistic thing I've come to utter in explanation, which is so drab, so monochromatic,… — Gabrielle Hamilton Water Copy Share Image
“Be careful what you get good at doin' 'cause you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life. -Jo Carson” — Gabrielle Hamilton Life Copy Share Image
“This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.” — Gabrielle Hamilton Food Copy Share Image
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant… — Gabrielle Hamilton Books Copy Share Image
“Alone on the terrace looking up at the stars I would not feel lonely. With him glued to the screen, I feel… — Gabrielle Hamilton Blood Copy Share Image
“every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with “allergies” to dairy and wheat—cheese and bread basically—but also to garlic, eggplant,… — Gabrielle Hamilton Allergies Copy Share Image
Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life. — Gabrielle Hamilton Be careful Copy Share Image
“...as soon as I saw the three-bin stainless steel pot sink, exactly like ours, I felt instantly at home and fell into… — Gabrielle Hamilton Whole life Copy Share Image
“It's hard to cook for kids, and when something doesn't appeal to them, instead of saying a polite no thank you, they… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me… — Gabrielle Hamilton About yourself Copy Share Image
You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees. — Gabrielle Hamilton Faces Copy Share Image
