{"author":"Julia Glass","author_id":"Julia+Glass","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.","author":"Julia Glass","tags":["culture","names"],"id":9977,"author_id":"Julia+Glass"},{"text":"None of this Mad Mario showmanship- orange clogs and Bermuda shorts fit for Babar, sweetbreads garnished with squash blossoms stuffed with cheese from the milk of Angora goats who live in the Pyrenees. Litchi sorbet veined with coconut milk and honey from Crete.","author":"Julia Glass","tags":["cookbook","food","imported","upscale","walter-kinderman"],"id":19491,"author_id":"Julia+Glass"},{"text":"I guess that’s how well you know me. You think I like hearing this news.”“I’m sorry. This is selfish. I just need to tell someone … outside my life. Get it out of myhead, to keep from going nuts, but somewhere safe.”She sees me as safe? This brings tears to my eyes.“I trust you, Clem. Are you pissed?","author":"Julia Glass","tags":["guts","love","pissed","safe","selfish","sisters","tears","trust"],"id":48941,"author_id":"Julia+Glass"},{"text":"To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...It is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself.","author":"Julia Glass","tags":["children","parenthood"],"id":95579,"author_id":"Julia+Glass"},{"text":"Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.","author":"Julia Glass","tags":["fate","life","sadistic","universe"],"id":111204,"author_id":"Julia+Glass"},{"text":"Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.","author":"Julia Glass","tags":["time"],"id":127410,"author_id":"Julia+Glass"},{"text":"SWEET POTATO BISQUE WITH CRABMEATGRAPEFRUIT ICE IN A SWEET TORTILLA CRISPLAMB SEARED IN ANCHO CHILI PASTE ON POLENTA TWO CHUTNEYS: PEAR \u0026 MINTASPARAGUS FLANAMERICAN GOAT CHEESE, EAST \u0026 WEST, WITH RED-WINE BISCUITSAVOCADO KEY LIME PIEPINON TORTA DE CIELO \u0026 CHOCOLATE MOCHA SHERBETShe'd invented the cake just for tonight; the sherbet came from Julia Child, a remarkably simple confection made with sour cream. Torta de cielo was a traditional wedding cake from the Yucatan, slim and sublime, light but chewy, where pulverized almonds stood in for flour. This time, instead of almonds, Greenie used the fat, velvety pignoli she ordered from an importer on Grand Street, mincing them by hand to keep them from turning to paste. She did not know whether you could tell the best Italian pine nuts from those grown in New Mexico, but, she caught herself thinking, and not without a touch of spite, she might soon find out.","author":"Julia Glass","tags":["cake","food","greenie-duquette","ingredients","menu"],"id":128844,"author_id":"Julia+Glass"},{"text":"I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.","author":"Julia Glass","tags":["expectations"],"id":142092,"author_id":"Julia+Glass"},{"text":"I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.","author":"Julia Glass","tags":["school","pet","smart "],"id":178004,"author_id":"Julia+Glass"},{"text":"Ready how? Who's ever ready for anything important?","author":"Julia Glass","tags":["change"],"id":213923,"author_id":"Julia+Glass"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}