The Union Street Bakery Quotes

“had to choose between the smoke on the horizon and the raging infernos at my feet.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“Life can turn on a dime. It’s a common cliché, and I’d heard it often enough. People die or move away. Investments go south. Affairs end. Loved ones betray us. Stuff happens.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“And I understand now that life isn’t about doing what you want to do but what you need to do.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“We wore black to symbolize the sadness of the life lost and the color to recognize the gifts that the departed had brought to us all.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“I just knew if I could be perfect, I’d somehow be more deserving of . . . love.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“If you’re not moving forward, you’re falling back,”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“life isn’t about doing what you want to do but what you need to do.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“Life listens to no master.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“When I was a kid, this gut feeling translated into socks and lunch boxes. In grade school I believed that if my socks matched my dress, if I carried the right Barbie lunch box, and if I made all As, I’d be accepted by friends, teachers and family. I just knew if I could be perfect, I’d somehow be more deserving of . . . love. This obsession with belonging followed me from grade and high schools to college, and into the professional world.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“calories clung to my oldest sister like rats on a drowning ship.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“RECIPES Sugar”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“I didn’t want to think how time had transformed such a lovely girl into a withered old woman.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“Loved ones betray us. Stuff happens.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery