Top 41 Erica Bauermeister Quotes
#1. Rituals, Al Decided, were a lot like numbers; they offered a comforting solidity in the otherwise chaotic floodtide of life. But it was more than that. A ritual was a way to hold time - not freezing it, rather the opposite, warming it through the touch of your imagination.
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#3. Somewhere along the line, I'll screw up and hurt you," he said. "Everybody does. But that's not the point."
"What's the point?"
"The point is if you believe I would never do it on purpose - and if I believe the same of you. That's how you deal with stuff.
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#4. You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.
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#6. The results of the irrevocable decisions in her life, the commitments she had leaped into without thought, with only the sure and perfect knowledge that it mattered not where her feet landed because her heart was certain.
p 186
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#8. The name for the cocoa tree is theobroma, which means "food of the gods." I know that chocolate is meant for us, however, because the melting point for good chocolate just happens to be the temperature within your very human mouth.
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#9. It made Chloe wonder, how much could you hold in your arms if they weren't full of constantly falling pieces of yourself?
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#10. Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.
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#12. It was interesting. Isabelle thought, the children that chose you. Some come through your body; others came in cars in the middle of the night.
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#13. The day coming to her in small, liquid moments, sleep slipping into wakefulness like the slow merging of two steams.
p 125
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#14. They said - Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.
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#16. She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes
a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.
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#17. Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.
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#18. Maybe your mind won't remember what I cooked last week, but your body will.
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#19. Lillian sometimes wondered why psychologists focused so much on a couple's life in their bedroom. You could learn everything about a couple just watching their kitchen choreography as they prepared dinner.
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#20. When she realized that there are many kinds of love and not all of them are obvious. That some wait like presents in the back of the closet until you are able to open them.
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#21. When a couple came to class together, it meant something else entirely - food as a solution, a diversion, or, occasionally, a playground.
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#22. When Marion had been a teenager, she wanted a tattoo. As an oldest child who did mostly what was expected of her, she had been fascinated by the abandon tattoos implied, the willing, blind leap into commitment.
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#24. She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.
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#25. If you live in your sense, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you'll never need a greeting card to make you remember.
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#26. She simply didn't have an interest in men anymore. It wasn't that she didn't like them, she just knew how easily they broke.
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#27. You know, Ian," Antonia commented, "my father always said a person needs a reason to leave and a reason to go. But I think sometimes the reason to go is so big, it fills you so much, that you don't even think of why you are leaving, you just do.
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#28. I loved to walk in her garden after dinner; it felt alive, even in the winter. She always told me that rosemary grows in the garden of a strong woman. Hers were like trees.
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#29. Being around her, he found even every day experiences were deeper, nuanced. Satisfaction and awareness slipped in between the layers of life like love notes hidden in the pages of a textbook.
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#30. You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.
p 146
about dealing with the loss of her mother
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#32. Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.
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#33. I've been wondering," Isabelle commented reflectively over dessert, "if it is foolish to make new memories when you know you are going to lose them.
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#34. The more she cooked, the more she began to view spices as carriers of the emotions and memories of the places they were originally from and all those they had traveled through over the years.
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#35. We are all just ingredients, Tom What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal
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#36. She'd seen it with Isabelle, the way things could become so permeated with memories that story was more important than function.
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#37. I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.
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#38. I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.
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#39. There were moments in life, Marion thought, when you reached back, baton in hand, feeling the runner behind you. Felt the clasp of their fingers resonating through the wood, the release of your hand, which then flew forward, empty, into the space ahead of you.
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#40. The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.
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