“Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.”

“Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.”

“Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.”

“The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.”

“Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.”

“But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out.For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but my dark secret was that really, I preferred the junk. The Dragonriders of Pern, Flowers in the Attic, The Clan of the Cave Bear. This stuff was like my stash of Playboys under the mattress.”

“I took a bite of lobster meat with rice. It was quite tasty. 'Arguing the morality of slaughter will send you into a tailspin of self-loathing every time.' 'Unless you're a vegan.' 'Uh-huh. But then you're a vegan and you don't count.”

“If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.”

“Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.”