Rachel Gibson Quotes

“He was the kind of guy who made Sadie a lit­tle un­com­fort­able. The kind who wore leather and drank beer and crushed emp­ties on their fore­heads. The kind who made her stand a lit­tle straighter. The kind she avoided like a hot fudge brownie be­cause both were bad news for her thighs.”

“Have you been hitting the wine or my mother's brownies again?”

“My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.”

“I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.”

“What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?”

“Why did everyone send casseroles in times of crisis? Why didn't anyone ever send brownies and Jack Daniel's?”

“I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.”

“Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.”

“You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!”

“What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.”