Give a Girl a Knife Quotes

“If people sometimes wonder why Midwestern food hasn’t gotten the respect it deserves, I want to say that it’s not the food, which is generally quite good; it’s the shitty, self-deprecating plastic storage vessels.”
― Amy Thielen, Give a Girl a Knife

“Like classic expatriates, we were a little addicted to the outsider feeling that accompanied every return and our imaginations were always attuned to the place where we weren't. We basically lived in each place with one foot in the other.

Petulant, beautiful, roaring and blindingly arctic, winter in Minnesota is the most histrionic of seasons.”
― Amy Thielen, Give a Girl a Knife