Julie Powell Quotations

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.

There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.

Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.