Cooking Quote by Erica Bauermeister

“Lillian was always so good at treating everything like a test, like some kind of game where the prize was shiny and untouchable. Perfection.…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“Romantic couples. Each room has its own flavor, its own feel.”

— Nora Roberts

“And of course there was no help for it, except recalling bits of conversations she had overheard from time to time about marriage. That’s…

— Jane Smiley

“The way Lillian says it is hungry, like she’s waiting for something to be revealed, and I wonder if maybe that’s the real difference…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“...Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss…

— Michael Cunningham

“Well she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in existence. And it was almost as…

— Ford Madox Ford

“When I first got married, I took my husband by the hand and led him first to the kitchen and then to the bedroom.…

— Karen DelleCava

“Here, in this house, her recollections glowed like embers on the hearth, and each night, in their warmth, she’d take a memory or two…

— Ari Berk

“How one minute she was talking to you and the next she had slipped into a private world where she turned her thoughts over…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to…

— Miranda Neville

“The way adults could talk themselves into and out of feeling okay about something always amazed her.”

— Elizabeth Stuckey-French

“Lillian is humming to herself, stretched out on top of my bookcase like she doesn’t mind the heat, and of course she doesn’t. Even…

— Brenna Yovanoff