The Comfort Food Diaries Quotes

“Luckily, I had figured out that life was not a banquet at all but a potluck. A party celebrating nothing but the desire to be together, where everyone brings what they have, what they are able to at any given time, and it is accepted with equal love and equanimity. You can arrive with hot dogs because you are just too tired or too poor to bring anything else, or you can bring the fancier, most elaborate dish in the world, and plenty of it, to share with people who brought the three-bean salad they clearly got at the grocery store. People do the best they can, at any given time. That's the thing to remember.”
― Emily Nunn, The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

“She seemed so surprised by my relief and gratitude that I realized something I'd never before considered: the things people truly need from us at the very worst times in their lives are often much smaller than what we try to give them.”
― Emily Nunn, The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

“It’s good to have goals, even outlandish ones.”
― Emily Nunn, The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

“Food has become my touchstone for understanding what real love is. The best thing? Food makes it easier to give love, untangled. Since it keeps us alive, the smallest, simplest gesture can seem miraculous: I brought you this soup.”
― Emily Nunn, The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

“It's really hard to determine the absolute truth about cakes or people from the past.”
― Emily Nunn, The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

“We create our own prisons, never noticing that we are free to leave them; even when the door is wide open, we return to old ways of life, old structures because they seem comfortable”
― Emily Nunn, The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

“You are on a forward path, which you can control to a certain extent... But you have to put your head down, keep moving forward, up and down the hills, no matter what”
― Emily Nunn, The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

“I was free to do things differently from the way I'd learned, or the way I'd been told was the only right one. I could operate in the kitchen any way I wanted, any way that made me happy.”
― Emily Nunn, The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

“After she'd finished a doctorate in naturaopathic medicine in Arizona, she'd told me, she got a master's in acupuncture. While she was living in Durham, practicing at an alternative medicine cener, she lectured at Duke University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine. During this same time, I had some pants hemmed, as my younger siser liked to say, in response to the dazzling achievements of others.”
― Emily Nunn, The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

“I was dumbfounded by my own life.”
― Emily Nunn, The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart