“I love the treat and pleasure of eating when it becomes an act of focused giving and sharing...Wasting money and appetite on bad food is disappointing, but it doesn't matter when the company is good...[T]here's a lot to be said for eating as a social act. It's a treat, even when the food is bad.”
―
Lucy Knisley,
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
“L'Age Licence. As in: License to experience, mess up, license to fail, license to do... whatever, before you're settled.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
“I'm sorry... that it couldn't last. But part of me is glad that it can exist, whole and lovely and complicated, in my mind.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
“Whenever I travel through crowded places, I'm struck by how human beings en masse are so incredibly hideous, while individual humans can be so heartbreakingly beautiful. Congregated: ugly, ubiquitous, and repellent. Individually: nuanced, intricate, beautiful, and unknowable. Fragile, separate, singular...fascinating. This just kills me.” ― Lucy Knisley, Displacement: A Travelogue
“Some trips are more than distance traveled in miles.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
“When we write about our lives, it's a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future.” ― Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
“Anyone who can fail to rejoice in the enticing squish/crunch of a fast-food French fry, or the delight of a warmed piece of grocery-store donut, is living half a life” ― Lucy Knisley, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
“and what appears to be every graphic memoir ever written – Jeffrey Brown, Craig Thompson, Alison Bechdel, James Kochalka, Lucy Knisley, and tons of others I’ve never seen before.” ― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
“For a large part of human history, people didn't really know how a woman's body worked. This is mainly because for much of human history, a woman's body was either too sacred or too sexual to study.” ― Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
“Constant consciousness of old age's frailties really makes me appreciate youth. It's so interesting that we evolved to respond with automatic care to the young... while old age repels, makes us afraid of our own mortality.” ― Lucy Knisley, Displacement: A Travelogue
“All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
“There is an Oscar Wilde quote about looking with a heart of stone upon the one you loved in your youth, at the hair you madly worshipped and wildly kissed.” ― Lucy Knisley, French Milk
“And putting something in words----naming it --- allows us to recognize ita little better when we come upon it.It's sorta the point of all this.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
“But my cookies contain the anxious deliciousness earned through an afternoon spent in turmoil, soothed by separating my troubles into warm crispy pieces.” ― Lucy Knisley, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
“This also deals with the valuable and significant influence that we take in from our mothers, as well as my own struggle toward adulthood at an age when we so desperately cling to our adolescence. With thanks to my mother, for holding the map.” ― Lucy Knisley, French Milk
“There's plenty of drama and comedy and bodily fluids! And what's a good origin story without all three?” ― Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
“To give in to the reality of being in love while accepting the possibility of heart break...To slowly, slowly give in to the inevitability of adulthood in the hopes that I will age as gracefully as Paris has.” ― Lucy Knisley, French Milk
“Aging cheese breaks down lactose, so most aged cheeses can be eaten by lactose intolerants! Good News! Aging also breaks down most potentially harmful bacteria, so less worry about raw milk cheeses!” ― Lucy Knisley, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
“Well, Marcus Aurelius said,"Everything we hear is opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not a truth.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
“L'Age Licence. As in: License to experience, mess up, license to fail, license to do... whatever, before you're settled.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
“I'm sorry... that it couldn't last. But part of me is glad that it can exist, whole and lovely and complicated, in my mind.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
“Whenever I travel through crowded places, I'm struck by how human beings en masse are so incredibly hideous, while individual humans can be so heartbreakingly beautiful. Congregated: ugly, ubiquitous, and repellent. Individually: nuanced, intricate, beautiful, and unknowable. Fragile, separate, singular...fascinating. This just kills me.” ― Lucy Knisley, Displacement: A Travelogue
“Some trips are more than distance traveled in miles.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
“When we write about our lives, it's a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future.” ― Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
“Anyone who can fail to rejoice in the enticing squish/crunch of a fast-food French fry, or the delight of a warmed piece of grocery-store donut, is living half a life” ― Lucy Knisley, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
“and what appears to be every graphic memoir ever written – Jeffrey Brown, Craig Thompson, Alison Bechdel, James Kochalka, Lucy Knisley, and tons of others I’ve never seen before.” ― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
“For a large part of human history, people didn't really know how a woman's body worked. This is mainly because for much of human history, a woman's body was either too sacred or too sexual to study.” ― Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
“Constant consciousness of old age's frailties really makes me appreciate youth. It's so interesting that we evolved to respond with automatic care to the young... while old age repels, makes us afraid of our own mortality.” ― Lucy Knisley, Displacement: A Travelogue
“All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
“There is an Oscar Wilde quote about looking with a heart of stone upon the one you loved in your youth, at the hair you madly worshipped and wildly kissed.” ― Lucy Knisley, French Milk
“And putting something in words----naming it --- allows us to recognize ita little better when we come upon it.It's sorta the point of all this.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
“But my cookies contain the anxious deliciousness earned through an afternoon spent in turmoil, soothed by separating my troubles into warm crispy pieces.” ― Lucy Knisley, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
“This also deals with the valuable and significant influence that we take in from our mothers, as well as my own struggle toward adulthood at an age when we so desperately cling to our adolescence. With thanks to my mother, for holding the map.” ― Lucy Knisley, French Milk
“There's plenty of drama and comedy and bodily fluids! And what's a good origin story without all three?” ― Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
“To give in to the reality of being in love while accepting the possibility of heart break...To slowly, slowly give in to the inevitability of adulthood in the hopes that I will age as gracefully as Paris has.” ― Lucy Knisley, French Milk
“Aging cheese breaks down lactose, so most aged cheeses can be eaten by lactose intolerants! Good News! Aging also breaks down most potentially harmful bacteria, so less worry about raw milk cheeses!” ― Lucy Knisley, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
“Well, Marcus Aurelius said,"Everything we hear is opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not a truth.” ― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
