““During the afternoons the only thing that seems to hold my interest is baking. I go through my recipe books. Soft-centered biscuits, cakes slathered with icing, cupcakes piled up in pyramids on round plates. Pete doesn't say anything, although every morning he takes out the rubbish bags filled with stale muffins and half-eaten banana loaves. The only thoughts that seem to distract me from babies are those memories of Paris. A gray cold, tall men, black coffee, sweet pastries, Mama laughing, with her hair and scarf streaming behind her. The smell of chocolate and bread.””
![“Perhaps Jonas is learning that bread without butter is no better for the spirit than all butter and no bread. Jonas has always been so serious. He hasn’t realized that rest and fun and laughter are as important as work,” she [Mother] looked down at her work-roughened hands, “though they don’t…” quote by Anne Colver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fbd/anne-colver-219946_religion_perhaps-jonas-is-learning-that-bread-wit_1286213.jpg)
