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21 " It's wild to miss someone so much, and yet in order to care for them you have to constantly say goodbye. "
― Elizabeth Acevedo , With the Fire on High
22 " And I know the past isn't a mirror image of the future, but it's a reflection of what can be; and when your first love breaks your heart, the shards of that can draw blood for a long, long time. "
23 " I feel like I'm being pulled in a hundred different directions and my feet are stuck in cement. "
24 " Whatever we are to become, I'm glad that we can laugh through the uncomfortable moments. "
25 " Where we come from leaves its fingerprints all over us, and if you know how to read the signs of a place, you know a little bit more who someone is. "
26 " the fear you have for someone else’s life always eclipses the fear you have for your own. "
27 " People say that you're stuck with the family you're born into. And for most people, that's probably true. But we all make choices about people. Who we want to hold close, who we want to remain in our lives, and who we are just fine without. "
28 " Cooking is about respect. Respect for the food, respect for your space, respect for your colleqgues and respect for your diners. The chef who ignores one of those is not a chef at all. "
29 " I’ve learned to trust pretty words even less than a pretty face. "
30 " That’s what I learned, about him and most guys: who they are when they’re giving you flowers and trying to get in your pants is not who they REALLY are when it’s no longer spring and they’ve found a new jawn to hang out with. And I know the past isn’t a mirror image of the future, but it’s a reflection of what can be; and when your first love breaks your heart, the shards of that can still draw blood for a long, long time. "
31 " Trust. Yourself, mainly, but the world, too. "
32 " And ain’t that what it means to be a sister? Holding things tight when the other one is falling apart? "
33 " I think you should write about the one that scares you most. Taking risks and making choices in spite of fear—it’s what makes our life story compelling. "
34 " I feel like something has risen inside me too, and it tastes a bit like hope. "
35 " This stuff is complicated. But it's like i'm some long division problem folks keep wanting to parcel into pieces, and they don't reduce, homies. The whole of me is Black. The whole of me is whole. "
36 " ...food is meant to feed more than an empty belly. It's also meant to nourish your heart." -Emoni "
37 " My Aunt Sara says it's in our blood, an innate need to tell a story through food. 'Buela says it's definitely a blessing, magic. "
38 " There’s so much I want for her that sometimes I think the seams of my skin aren’t enough to contain every hope I have. And I whisper it to her all the time. When I’m feeding her. When she’s asleep in my arms. When we are playing at the park. I whisper all the everything I know she can be and the ways I’ll fight for her to be them. I want her to know her entire life her mommy may not have had a powerful job or made millions, but that her moms did everything so that she could be an accumulation of the best dreams. "
39 " Some days, when my feelings are like this, like a full pot of water with the fire on high, I don’t know what to cook. Plans and ideas escape my mind and instead I let my heart and hands take control, guided by a voice on the inside that tells me what goes where. "
40 " The world is a turntable that never stops spinning; as humans we merely choose the tracks we want to sit out and the ones that inspire us to dance "