Dinner With Edward Quotes

“The secret is treating family like guests and guests like family.”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner With Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“There is somewhere someone who will feel lucky knowing you. And if lucky enough, loving you.”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“Is there someone who will stand naked with you in the shower and hold you and comfort you?" he had once said in a hoarse whisper, his words seeming to tumble over one another. "If you can't do that with the person you're with, then you're not really in love”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner With Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“You make a mistake if you don't try to figure out love," he said as he served the tarte citron- boldly tangy with a hint of sweetness held in his feathery pastry. "If you give yourself to someone without understanding it, you are only asking to be a slave".”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner With Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“You are a fine and talented woman, whose potential is yet to be realized given the love and support and luck we all need. Where you lost the will to fight for what is yours, where you gave away control of your life, is the mystery you are now unraveling. When you get it all back, hold on to it.”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner With Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“Love is being, not belonging. Giving and receiving, not possessing.”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner With Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“People are too obsessed with seeking experience and feel that if they are not living on the razor’s edge, they are not alive,” Edward had once told me. “It’s because they can’t deal with normal life. They need to climb Mount Everest instead.”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“The secret is treating family like guests and guests like family,”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“Give of yourself, not yourself.”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner With Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“his favorite tale from the Arabian Nights, adapted by Somerset Maugham. He had often told me the story about the Baghdad servant who was sent out to the market to buy provisions for his master, a wealthy merchant. The servant bumped into Death at the market. Frightened, he borrowed his master’s horse and galloped to Samarra to escape his fate. Later, the merchant went to the market to confront Death himself. “Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?” he asked. Death looked amused. “That was not a threatening gesture,” said Death. “It was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“Is there someone who will stand naked with you in the shower and hold you and comfort you?" he had once asked in a hoarse whisper, his words seeming to tumble over one another. "If you cannot do that with the person you are with, then you're not really in love?”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner With Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“Cooking was a passion and sometimes a serious art form, to be shared with a select few.”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“I just don’t want to bother looking at recipes. To me, that’s not cooking—being tied to a piece of paper.” He”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“I hope you're happy, darling.”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner With Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship