Dire-straits Quote by Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“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 a way…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“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 maybe I…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I knew it…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“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 help, and…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“It's a French technique. Soups get screened, and sauces. Forced through a tamis or a chinois. Everything that comes out is smooth and all…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.”

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“The scene is most beautiful without people in it. People just screw things up. Forget the whole thing, the world, all the living people,…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“His voice is muddy, that's what it is. Dark and brown and muddy. A note to it like coffee left too long on the…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“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

“Alone doesn't just mean without people. It can mean without anything else. And maybe, even without putting a word on me, she's found a…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“Difficult, but not impossible. I am not impossible.”

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter