78 Quotes by Erica Bauermeister

We sat in silence, letting the green in the air heal what it could.

While the egg yolks cooled, he directed the beaters at the egg whites, setting the mixer on high speed that sent small bubbles giggling to the side of the bowl, where a few became many until they were a white froth rising up and then lying down again in patters and ridges, leaving an intricate design like the ribs of a leaf in the wake of the beaters

She became a frame for the picture that was her son and daughter.

She didn't want to go home to New England, to her family who would think of her as the girl who had gotten on the plane, a girl she had grown past, like a train overtaking the cars on the highway, heading into mountains and valleys that her family had never seen, wouldn't recognize. (p25)

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.

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.

Her song was so beautiful that it could take people back to all the things they wished they had done, and all the things they wished they could be.

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.

You're not traveling if you already know everything.