Phoebe

“Cooking is about respect. Respect for the food, respect for your space, respect for your colleqgues and respect for your diners. The chef who ignores one of those is not a chef at all.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“Of course I worry too much,” Nate said. “But I’m usually right. The people who worry are always right. That’s how that works.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly Devious

“And I know the past isn't a mirror image of the future, but it's a reflection of what can be; and when your first love breaks your heart, the shards of that can draw blood for a long, long time.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly staged her own disappearance in order to exact an elegant revenge on a cheating husband? They probably did not. And no one was going to discount Stevie Bell, who had gotten into this school on the wings of her interest in the Ellingham case, and who had been a bystander at a death that was now looking more and more suspicious.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious