Beth Harbison Quotes
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I guess everyone likes praise for what they do, but that night I enjoyed cooking for the Olekseis more than I ever had before. Everything about the ingredients, the smells, the textures, everything delighted me. Maybe I should specialize in Russian food. I sliced the garlic and dropped it into the pan. It started to sizzle, and I turned the heat down and began slicing the onion. It was very fresh, very pungent. My eyes watered, and I got sniffly. Then I smelled a hint of burn on the garlic and hurried back to the stove and shook the pan. Just in time. The slices were brown but not too brown. I was getting good at this. I could detect the smell of burning just before it happened. That had to be some sort of superpower. As I put the rest of the dish together- dicing deep, ruby beets; slicing carrots and Yukon gold potatoes, sizzling spicy sausage in the pan; spicing and tasting, and mixing, and finally pureeing the whole thing into a savory maroon liquid- I continued to marvel at the perfect ripeness and freshness of every ingredient I'd picked out.
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Love seems like such a simple thing to ask for. Such a basic right. It takes no skill, no experience, no money, no education, nothing – it can happen to anyone. But it doesn't happen to everyone. Even though everyone, deep down, wants it. Anyway, I do.
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I'd never forgotten him, despite spending half my life trying to forget him. I'd given him everything: my love, my body, my pride, & parts of my heart & mind that I could never get back.
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I could definitely rise to the challenge of re-inventing comfort food. Neufchatel and low-fat sour cream were my friends! Low-carb pasta with omega-3s and protein were the greatest inventions ever! I'd had luck using all of them. Granted, even though I couldn't resist a good fatty slice of prime rib every now and then, and Fromager d'Affinois bursting into cream in my mouth was like heaven for me- and certainly I had the curves to show for it- but even if I didn't follow a strict diet, I could certainly cook one!
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Here's the only thing I know for sure: Chopped pineapple is incredible on hot dogs. Honest to God, I love pineapple on everything- I would probably even eat it off a cadaver's hand- but toss it with a little chopped red onion and put it on a hot dog, and it's bliss. There's not a lot you can count on in this world, but pineapple? It's solid.
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I found myself teetering on the edge of Uh-oh, and looking straight down the barrel of Oh, shit.
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She pulled up to the garage in front of Nordstrom (no matter where she was going in the mall, she liked to enter through Nordstrom)
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Trust that things do work out by themselves sometimes.
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I think its better to do whatever is going to make you feel the most peaceful and happy.
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She'd know the smell of him, the taste of him, the feel of him anywhere.
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She thought about Cheryl’s contention that this was young love, and about how she’d feel if they were ever to break up and she had to look back on this moment as an episode in a life that was full of people she didn’t even know now. The thought made her want to cry.
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I wanted sex to feel the way it had felt with him. Wild. Uninhibited. A perfect fit, perfect chemistry.
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How different would I be, if I'd never met him? Might I have had a normal dating life like my friends did, flitting from one guy to the next, never getting too serious or too invested in one while I was still so young? Who would I be if I hadn't endured the heartbreak of losing him & losing that part of myself that was built around him?
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What they had between them was alot deeper than what most people had.
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I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.
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And everyone’s story would be different. Every triumph would have a different prize, every heart ache a different face.
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Who they are today isn't who they were then.
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I missed the idea of him more than he himself.
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So your final assignment is a simple one but it’s going to take forever: be happy. No matter what it takes. No matter how embarrassing it might be sometimes, no matter who or what you might have to forgive, no matter how hideous the color of the hat that makes you smile, be happy.
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Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls.