85 Quotes by Laurie Colwin

I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone’s morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook’s strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

Holly sat down, as if at home. But, Guido wondered, would she be happy where there were no trays?

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook’s strongest ally...

Most of his time appeared to be spent bumming cigarettes from people whose annual income was about a fifth of his own.

Gertje was right. To be an American was to be blessed with a kind of idiotic but very useful innocence.

Out on the street I felt lost wandering around without my child. I felt I ought to wear a pin that said: I have a child in school at the moment.

I love the process of learning a thing. It’s doing a thing I find so boring.

Their first actual kiss was a one-celled organism which, after they had been standing on the stairway kissing for some time, evolved into something rather grander – a bird of paradise, for example.