Quotes from Jeanne Ray

Everyone has a private life, the things they love and think no one else could really understand.

You never really know what's going on with your ceiling until you just give up and lie down on your floor.

She's like a bonfire on the darkest night of the year, a bonfire on a prairie in a snowstorm. You can't help yourself, you're going to turn in her direction, and she's doing nothing to make this happen.

Is there something you're interested in? I mean, if you could really turn your life around and follow your dreams, if you didn't have to worry about us or the money, what would you want to do?

I want to I might be good at. I really want to be good at something, to feel passionate about it.

The timer rang and I went to take two more sweet potato cakes out of the oven. There was a pot of sweet potatoes simmering on the stove. The kitchen was a warm and steamy place that smelled of cinnamon and nutmeg. A tropical rain forest of baking.

Baking Advice from her mother) It's easy enough to beat an egg into the batter but it's a lot harder to pull one out.

Gently boiling potatoes make a sound not unlike a small stream moving quickly over rocks. I thought it would be perfect for one of those ambient-noise tapes: The Ocean; Wind in the Pine Trees; Boiling Potatoes. It was very soothing. I measured baking powder to its dulcet tones.

In the most fundamental way I have my first glimpse of how the ingredients come together, how each is nothing in particular by itself but once they are joined they can make something miraculous.

I think if you have something that you really love to do, you're already ahead of ninety-nine percent of the people out there in the world.