So all you can do is be your own beautiful self and let love win.

In Aunt Boo’s opinion, it was better to know how to avoid danger than to avoid dangerous places.

See that’s what people don’t get about food. It’s never the food, it’s the love that goes into making it. That’s what’s important.

I believe that within every one of us is a woman of undiscovered beauty, a woman who is charming and talented and light of heart.

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

If I can’t read, if I can’t make a simple Indian pudding, then I don’t see the point in living much more, really. Because aside from a good book, and perhaps, a fresh morning in a dew-covered garden, few things in life give me as much pleasure as magic of making a truly spectacular dessert.

Because high school only comes around once, and I would hate to look back and think I didn’t make the most of every moment because I was scared of what other people thought. Other people never think that much about you anyway. Eleanor Roosevelt said that.

In fact, a case could be made that worrying about a problem actually prevents you from resolving it, because it deceives your mind into thinking that you’re doing something when really you’re not.

He’s definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.

It’s always so cool to think you are looking at today is something other people have been looking at for centuries. It’s the closest I’ve come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.