All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.
Julia GlassWhen most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.
Julia GlassI come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.
Julia GlassMost inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that a good cake is like a good marriage: from the outside, it looks ordinary, sometimes unremarkable, yet cut into it, taste it, and you know that it is nothing of the sort. It is the sublime result oflong and patient experience, a confection whose success relies on a profound understanding of compatibilities and tastes; on a respect for measurement, balance, chemistry and heat; on a history of countless errors overcome.
Julia GlassOf all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.
Julia GlassPeople take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.
Julia GlassNever talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.
Julia GlassHere we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.
Julia GlassThere you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.
Julia GlassRage cools fast without an accessible target.
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