“You only confuse hope with power once in life.”

“There are so many things I dare not say I have quietly stopped being me.”

“We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.”

“Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.”

“Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.”

“His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the responsibil...”

“Van Uoc felt the stab of a sad truth: she and her mother would never be as close as her mother and grandmother had been.Her mother got up, stretched her tidy, graceful frame and headed for the kitc...”

“In addition, when they talked as if city people lived by different values, they were not emphasizing abortion, or gay marriage, or the things that are typically pointed to as the cultural issues th...”

“We need no language to laugh”