Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success Quotes

“Two silhouettes blocked out the hard sun. The shapes came into focus as my vision adjusted to the light. One of them revealed itself to be a longboard. The other, the smoking-hot, dripping-wet guy who’d surfed it.”
― Jessica Parra , Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success

“Baking needs to be a marriage of both substance and style. You cannot sacrifice one for another.”
― Jessica Parra, Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success: A Novel

“The walls between who I was and who I needed to become began to crumble again. Only this time, when the walls fell, I saw both those things could coexist. With the rubble of them at my feet, a lightness swept over me. As different parts of different dreams combined with one another, a wholeness I'd never felt before filled my body.”
― Jessica Parra, Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success: A Novel

“People were always so afraid of nightmares. Never realized it was dreams they needed to be on the lookout for.”
― Jessica Parra, Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success: A Novel

“For forever I'd thought duty and passion were like oil and water. And never the twain shall mix. But maybe they didn't need to be mixed; maybe it was better to fold them over one another, like layers of a croissant or the rings of a Rosca. Maybe they could even be the same thing.”
― Jessica Parra, Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success: A Novel

“I was born on an island that stripped me of my family and my dreams, Rubi.... This country gave a family back to me, but my dreams.... I gave them up for you. So you could become everything I couldn't.”
― Jessica Parra, Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success: A Novel