The Recipe for Hope Quotes

“True forgiveness takes enormous strength and very great courage. A person who can forgive is one of the bravest people there is. It may seem impossible, but you have to do it, Evie. Even if it means you have to keep on trying to forgive, and go on forgiving again, every single day of your”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas

“Sometimes we direct the anger we feel about things we can’t control towards those who are closest to us. At the very people we love the most. That’s where the power of anger is at its most destructive. For your own sake, you have to try to forgive. Forgive your husband. And, most importantly of all, forgive yourself. And yes, that is one of the hardest things of all. True forgiveness takes enormous strength and very great courage. A person who can forgive is one of the bravest people there is. It may seem impossible, but you have to do it, Evie. Even if it means you have to keep on trying to forgive, and”
― Fiona Valpy, The Recipe for Hope

“I know, now, that our lives are made up of changing seasons. Through the darkest days of bleak midwinter we have to do what we can to keep the faith, nourishing our bodies and our souls, keeping a flame burning—no matter how tiny or how tenuous—deep down inside our hearts. And that, in the bleakest moments of all, we should make a Christmas for ourselves, piling on the tinsel, lighting the candles and the fairy lights and rolling back the darkness that threatens to encroach, with the promise of a rebirth; a reawakening; a Réveillon. Because, if we can just hang on in there long enough, spring will return and the leaves, hidden deep within the bare branches and the stark vine stocks, will unfurl to the sunlight with tender, new promise.”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas

“preparing beautiful food is nourishment for mind, body and soul. And then sharing it is a wonderful way of expressing the love that’s in your heart, nourishing others... A mother’s love.”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas

“And, from a distance, it’s easier to see things in perspective. Perhaps we have to go away so that we know where we want to get back to.”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas

“As parents, we try to give our children two things: strong roots, to give them a sense of belonging, and wide wings, to let them fly when the time comes. Maybe”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas

“Sometimes we direct the anger we feel about things we can’t control towards those who are closest to us. At the very people we love the most. That’s where the power of anger is at its most destructive. For your own sake, you have to try to forgive.”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas

“Sometimes we direct the anger we feel about things we can’t control towards those who are closest to us.”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas

“Anger will weigh you down and eat away at you, eroding any chance you have of beginning to live again.”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas

“A simple, practical gesture of remembrance can be a balm for the soul when we are grieving.”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas

“Mon Dieu, that’s good hot chocolate. What’s in it?’ ‘The secret is to put a couple of cinnamon sticks in with the milk as you heat it. It adds that certain je ne sais quoi.”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas

“Trappe”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas

“Sixteenth Arrondissement, far more sumptuous than my own tiny attic shoebox. We stood in the elegant, high-ceilinged reception”
― Fiona Valpy, The French for Christmas