Book-club-fiction Quote by Sarah Beth Martin

“Over the years, the kitchens I grew up in and around continued to draw me in, like a moth to a flame, as though…

— Sasha Martin

“She makes tea by hand. Nettles, slippery elm, turmeric, cinnamon - my mother is a recipe for warm throats and belly laughs. Once she…

— Sarah Kay

“A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Growing up, I was the champion of spiders and moths in my house, catching and releasing them for my mother at great personal risk.”

— John L. Monk

“To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She knew she had become the strange sort of lady that she remembered noticing as a child, the sort of lady who was always…

— Jane Smiley

“...the thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made its nightly…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“I had stopped my chair at that exact place, coming out, because right there the spice of wisteria that hung around the house was…

— Wallace Stegner

“... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“sinking ankle deep in something cold and wet. Thinking of the five-hundred-dollar cinnamon suede boots she had lusted after for months and finally bought…

— Marie Force

“Look,I'll pay you for a cup of coffee and the use of this-" she thumped a hand on the sofa and a soft plume…

— Nora Roberts

“She had a horror he would die at night. And sometimes when the light began to fade She could not keep from noticing how…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay