“As a rule, she didnt like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.”

“To my faithful readers, because a book is like a piethe only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.”

“Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.”

“Being a humble person, she gave her pie shop a humble namePIE.”

“Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasnt the only one in town whod come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.”

“Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.”

“When everyone is hungry and waiting when things need doing urgently and the clock is ticking - its often wiser to get cooking and present a ready-made dish theyll find tasty to eat rather than get...”

“Life without a pasta machine is like life without music!”

“Everything depends on the moment the spice hits the pan: whether it sizzles with mouthwatering fragrance or turns to ash. Once, I thought happiness was the sizzle in the pan. But its not. Happiness...”

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”

“Hard work should be rewarded by good food.”

“Humble people walk comfortably in every group. No one is either too beneath them or too above them for their own sense of well-being. They are who they are, people with as much to give as to get, a...”

“The majority of people I've come across in life have treated me unfairly. I'd be a liar if I said it didn't hurt; I have this deep wound in my soul I feel all the time, but I still choose to love d...”

“A wise man is humble, knowing he actually doesn't know much.”