{"author":"Erica Bauermeister","author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"She looked at the produce stalls, a row of jewels in a case, the colors more subtle in the winter, a Pantone display consisting only of greens, without the raspberries and plums of summer, the pumpkins of autumn. But if anything, the lack of variation allowed her mind to slow and settle, to see the small differences between the almost-greens and creamy whites of a cabbage and a cauliflower, to wake up the senses that had grown lazy and satisfied with the abundance of the previous eight months. Winter was a chromatic palate-cleanser, and she had always greeted it with the pleasure of a tart lemon sorbet, served in a chilled silver bowl between courses.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["cooking","senses","the-seasons","winter"],"id":2150,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"},{"text":"Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["heartbreak"],"id":12009,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"},{"text":"A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["risk"],"id":16658,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"},{"text":"I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["dessert","memories","memory-loss"],"id":51582,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"},{"text":"Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["beautiful","life"],"id":58796,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"},{"text":"Isabelle had always thought of her mind as a garden, a magical place to play as a child, when the grown-ups were having conversations and she was expected to listen politely-- and even, although she hated to admit this, later with Edward, her husband, when listening to the particularities of his carpet salesmanship wore her thin. Every year the garden grew larger, the paths longer and more complicated. Meadows of memories.Of course, her mental garden hadn't always been well tended. There were the years when the children were young, fast-moving periods when life flew by without time for the roots of deep reflection, and yet she knew memories were created whether one pondered them or not. She had always considered that one of the luxuries of growing older would be the chance to wander through the garden that had grown while she wasn't looking. She would sit on a bench and let her mind take every path, tend every moment she hadn't paid attention to, appreciate the juxtaposition of the one memory against another.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["beautiful"],"id":68020,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"},{"text":"She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes--a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["food"],"id":79098,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"},{"text":"We’re all just ingredients. What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["food","food-lit","inspirational"],"id":79479,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"},{"text":"Jack's marketing books had been a part of her life for so long that she had ceased to register their presence, simply moving them from the couch to the coffee table, from the bed to the nightstand. How to Sell Everything to Anybody. Eight Great Habits of CEOs. They all seemed to involve numbers, as if you could simply count yourself to riches, like following sheep to sleep.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["analytics","big-data","books","marketing","numbers"],"id":85441,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"},{"text":"She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["children","gulliver","responsibility"],"id":107899,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}