168 Quotes by Ruth Reichl

Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan.

My yogurt was nestled into a bag, waiting to turn into aushak, and all around us were sausages and pastry, lollipops and spices, chicken and cheese. Any world that contained all this, I thought surveying our loot, was a very fine place. I felt reinvigorated, alive, optimistic. The though of getting back to work suddenly seemed like fun.

Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night.

We slid along water reds and greens, the changing lights captured in the canvas of wet tar.

I wasn't exactly known for self-confidence, but I could taste the cake in my mind. Strong. Earthy. Fragrant. I remembered the nose-prickling aroma of cinnamon when it comes in fragile curls, and the startling power of crushed cloves.

The more stars in your itinerary, the less likely you are to find the real life of another country.

That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.

I decided that it wasn’t pretty that I felt, but confident.

That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.