The Seven Year Slip Quotes
"My aunt used to say, if you don’t fit in, fool everyone until you do."
"Keep your passport renewed, pair red wines with meats and whites with everything else, find work that is fulfilling to your heart as well as your head, and always chase the moon."
"She waltzed through life like she belonged at every party she was never invited to, fell in love with every lonely heart she found, and found luck in every adventure."
"Like the pages of a book, uniting a prologue with a happy ending, an epilogue with a tragic beginning."
"Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown."
"Food is a work of art. That’s what a perfect meal is—something that you don’t just eat, but something you enjoy. It's magical. Romantic."
"The perfect meal is less about the food, then and more about the memory."
"The truth is she was always afraid that whatever came after The Heart Mattered wouldn’t be as good."
"When was the last time you did something for the first time?"
"The past was the past was the past, and it couldn’t be changed."
"I didn’t need to be fixed. I just needed . . . to be reminded that I was human."
"He always says food brings people together, and that’s really what I love about it."
"You can say things with food that you can’t quite with words sometimes."
"Universal truths in butter. Secrets folded into the dough. Poetry in the spices. Romance in a chocolate. Love in a lemon pie."
"Romance wasn’t in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air."
"You can just dance, Lemon. You can take the lead."
"Nothing is quite like a Waffle House at two in the morning."
"I highly doubted I would fall in love with a few well-placed adjectives."
"Sometimes the people you love don’t leave you with goodbyes—they just leave."
"The truth is most restaurant jobs pay shit. You work terrible hours. While you make great food, you usually eat shit when you get home. Or you’re too tired to eat. This business isn’t for everyone. If you’re not pursuing something worthwhile, then why are you in the kitchen?"
"Just once. But, unlike with shoes, all you need to do is fall in love once, though, to be ruined by it forever."
"Always find time to do what makes you happy—like painting, and traveling, and f*** the rest."
"It’s never a matter of time, but a matter of timing."
"If you do it right, once is all you need."
"Find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can."
"You will be happiest when you’re on your own adventure."
"Love was an invitation into the wild unknown, one step at a time together."
"There was never grief without love or love without grief."