69 Quotes by Julie Powell

But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her life before that death was not what she had thought it was. The journey is a painful one, but Ms. Metz is much the stronger for having survived to recount it.

I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.