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“Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that a good cake is like a good marriage: from the outside, it looks ordinary, sometimes unremarkable, yet cut into it, taste it, and you know that it is nothing of the sort. It is the sublime result oflong and patient experience, a confection whose success relies on a profound understanding of compatibilities and tastes; on a respect for measurement, balance, chemistry and heat; on a history of countless errors overcome.”
― Julia Glass, The Whole World Over

“We drag our past behind us like a weight, still shackled but far enough back that we never have to see, never have to openly acknowledge who we once were.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller

“The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.”
― Richard Russo, Bridge of Sighs

“We must be willing to get rid the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”
― Joseph Campbell

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.”
― Meister Eckhart

“I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again

“in Southie, most kids came out of the womb clutching a Schlitz and a pack of Luckies.”
― Dennis Lehane, Small Mercies

“The fear of scarcity followed Jane into adulthood, into her marriage. It popped up at odd times, surprising her.”
― J Courtney Sullivan

“We're not having a big wedding or anything," she said. "It's my third marriage. What is that old line? Remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience. You might say that's my mantra.”
― J Courtney Sullivan

“Human beings did so much damage to one another just by being alive. To the people they loved most, and to the ones they knew so little about that they could convince themselves they weren't even people.”
― J Courtney Sullivan

“Your hands are cold," he said as if this had surprised him, and then he leaned in to kiss me. And when he did, something inside me reoriented itself, my world sotly tipping into his direction, as if he himself were the sea.”
― Lidija Hilje, Slanting Towards the Sea

“But going back to my maiden name felt like trying to wriggle myself into my old high school jeans. It didn't fit anymore, and suddenly I was a stranger to all my identities.”
― Lidija Hilje, Slanting Towards the Sea

“It wasn't until years later that I saw her words for what they really meant. If people want to love you, they do, no matter how flawed you are. But if they aren't inclined to love you, nothing you say or do, no amount of your own goodness, can make them change their mind.”
― Lidija Hilje, Slanting Towards the Sea

“He was weightless, yet never held anything more substantial.”
― Lidija Hilje, Slanting Towards the Sea