Food Quote by Toni Morrison

“She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a…

— Nora Roberts

“Baking was a science, precise, just mix it all together and let the oven do the work. But actually cooking, she couldn’t cook a…

— Allie Burke

“there’s no beginning or end to kitchen work. You eat breakfast, then it’s lunch, and then it’s dinner, and when it’s bright again it’s…

— Kyung-Sook Shin

“No matter what she was doing-baking cookies, walking around the lake on a beautiful day, making love to her husband-she felt rushed and jittery,…

— Tom Perrotta

“The job and the flat had been sorted for a while, and finally the story of her past was in place. She had rehearsed…

— K.L. Slater

“I didn’t know how long my sisters and I lay there together, just like we had once shared that carved bed in that dilapidated…

— Sarah J. Maas

“And she saw herself cooking, baking, canning and working a little in the orchard.”

— Robyn Carr

“Miss West is never idle. Below, in the big after-room, she does her own laundering. Nor will she let the steward touch her father's…

— Jack London

“When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the cowpats into…

— Geraldine Brooks

“So she quit working to make sense of things— we don’t realise it, but it’s hard work we do almost every waking moment, building…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“It was a strange staging for death, for the woman on the high bed was dying. Slowly, fighting every inch of the way with…

— John Buchan