“This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Dire-straits Copy Share Image
“As strange as my life gets, it's just my life. I'm still in it. Whatever happens, I'm going to have to find… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Life Copy Share Image
“I'm completely out of control, and I can hear the beginnings of the chant, get/out/, but now that I'm not being touched… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Coping mechanisms Copy Share Image
“I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Cooking Copy Share Image
“I'm terrified of Elena's ghost, but at the same time, I feel strongly that it's the right thing to do. I can… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Love Copy Share Image
“It's a French technique. Soups get screened, and sauces. Forced through a tamis or a chinois. Everything that comes out is smooth… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Change Copy Share Image
“One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try,… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Acceptance Copy Share Image
“She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.” — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Human nature Copy Share Image
“The scene is most beautiful without people in it. People just screw things up. Forget the whole thing, the world, all the… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Death Copy Share Image
“His voice is muddy, that's what it is. Dark and brown and muddy. A note to it like coffee left too long… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Poetry-of-life Copy Share Image
“But I can't force everything into the arrangement I'd like. I can't use denial to make everything simple.” — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Denial Copy Share Image
“Alone doesn't just mean without people. It can mean without anything else. And maybe, even without putting a word on me, she's… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Copy Share Image
“Difficult, but not impossible. I am not impossible.” — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Adversity Copy Share Image
“It preoccupies me until it's time to leave. It seems such the right expression of grief. I am sad, so in whatever… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Grief Copy Share Image
“He has a key and could come back in, but I doubt he will. He doesn't want to be here any more… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Copy Share Image
“Everybody struggles with this stuff, you know. With social discomfort and grief and fitting in. People with syndromes, people with disorders, people… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Fitting in Copy Share Image
“My world had turned upside down again and again, which should mean it's right side up now, but it isn't. Everything's different,… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Change Copy Share Image
“I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe.” — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Cooking Copy Share Image
“I love it," I say. "So I learned it." It's an explanation that leaves a lot out. But I learned a long… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Explanation Copy Share Image
