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"Jennifer Anne had prepared some complicated-looking recipe involving chicken breasts stuffed with sweet potatoes topped with a vegetable glaze. They looked perfect, but it was the kind of dish where you just knew someone had to have been pawing at your food for a long while to get it just right, their fingers all in what now you were having to stick in your mouth."
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"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."
Strength
"It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be."
Life
"All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real."
Authenticity
"Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said."
Perspective
"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
Truth
"Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."
Philosophy
"For once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world."
Confidence
"It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right."
Growth
"I planned my whole future around Adam,' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.''No,' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet."
Growth
"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."
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"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession."
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"I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants."
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"Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on."
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"I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar."
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"Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore."
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"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight."
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"I just get all jacked up when we start cooking."
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"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."
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"I don't believe in low-fat cooking."
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"Jennifer Anne had prepared some complicated-looking recipe involving chicken breasts stuffed with sweet potatoes topped with a vegetable glaze. They looked perfect, but it was the kind of dish where you just knew someone had to have been pawing at your food for a long while to get it just right, their fingers all in what now you were having to stick in your mouth."
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