Sophie Bernstein Quotes

By the time Herman appears at six thirty, I've done a double batch of my version of an upgraded pinwheel, making a homemade honey oat graham cookie base, a piped swirl of soft vanilla honey marshmallow cream, and a covering of dark chocolate mixed with tiny, crunchy Japanese rice pearls. I've made a test batch of a riff on a Nutter Butter, two thin, crisp peanut butter cookies with a layer of peanut butter cream sandwiched between them. My dad always loved Nutter Butters; he could sit in his office for hours working on briefs, eating them one after another. I figured he would be my best taster, so might as well try them and bring some with me later today. And I've just pulled a new brownie out of the oven: a deep, dark chocolate base with a praline pecan topping, sort of a marriage of brownie and that crispy top layer of a good pecan pie. ~ Stacey Ballis

I grab the nonstick skillet, put it on the stove, and fetch four slices of bread from the breadbox. I've been playing with a new bread recipe, a cross between sourdough and English muffin, baked in a sliceable loaf. Makes fantastic toast, and I've been craving grilled cheese with it since I brought it home yesterday.
I literally butter all four slices all the way to each edge, place them butter-side down in the skillet, and top each with a thick slice of American cheese. That way, as the pan slowly heats up, the cheese starts to melt, and by the time the outsides are crunchy and crispy, the cheese is a goo-fest, and nothing gets burnt. And I always make two, because one grilled cheese sandwich is never enough. ~ Stacey Ballis

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal. ~ Carl Bernstein

What are you doing, Sophie?"

"What do you think I'm doing?"

"Do you want to leave? Is that it? You want to run away from everything? You want to hide and pretend like it's not happening? You never let up in that department, do you?"

"You don't understand, Oliver, and I'm not going to explain it to you."

"Yeah, well, go ahead, if this is what you want then leave. Leave me. But know that if you leave and anything happens to you, I will lose myself. You hear me? I will lose myself."

"What about me? I've lost myself already."

"I'll bring you back. This is your home. Whatever it takes, I'm here. Look at me. I'm here. I want to be with you. Don't keep me away. Not now. ~ Elisa Marie Hopkins

Men who want to get married
propose. You don't need to read the signs. They propose and that's the sign. ~ Sophie Kinsella

He smiled at her, and Sophie's emotions went to war. She had always admired Banallt's intellect and his easy manner with her. He never had condescended to her or made her feel unworthy or insignificant. But how could she forget him arriving at Rider Hall with Tommy, drunk and with a woman who was not respectable? All the times he'd watched her with his unsettling eyes and
then left with Tommy. The night he'd admitted he was unfaithful to his marriage and saw no reason to change. ~ Carolyn Jewel

I'll always catch you baby. Always... ~ Sophie Monroe

I just smiled and wished hard for the waitress to come back from Cancun or Mazatlan or wherever she was so I could order my martini. ~ Karen MacInerney

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'
Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.
'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. ~ Roald Dahl

I could spend a year trying to describe him, but you still wouldn't fully appreciate his unique appeal until your panties spontaneously combusted the first time he smiled at you. ~ Joanna Wylde

The deeper one delves, the worse things look for actively managed funds. ~ William J. Bernstein

There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups. ~ Sophie Hannah

Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s. ~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a 'Let's find out who the murderer is', which is kind of mysterious but not that mysterious. She always started with, 'How can this thing be happening; isn't it strange?' ~ Sophie Hannah

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it. ~ Sophie Swetchine

On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange. ~ Sophie Turner

Archer turned back to me, and that familiar grin flashed over his face. Come on, Mercer. Me, you, the cellar. What could go wrong? ~ Rachel Hawkins

The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward ~ Carl Bernstein

With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are. ~ Sophie Hunger

You're perfect,' he says almost fiercely. 'You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe.
And if it's me that's made you feel you should do this … then there's something wrong with me. ~ Sophie Kinsella

How can you not love Jack Gleeson? He's amazing. He's the nicest guy. ~ Sophie Turner

You can't go back in time and do life a different way. ~ Sophie Kinsella

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. ~ Carl Bernstein

I can't be overwhelmingly happy. I'm never free for a moment day and night from the uncertainty in which we live these days, which excludes any carefree plans for tomorrow and casts a shadow over all the days to come. ~ Sophie Scholl

Woodward, a registered Republican, did not vote. He couldn't decide whether he was more uneasy with the disorganization and naïve idealism of McGovern's campaign or with Richard Nixon's conduct. And he believed that not voting enabled him to be more objective in reporting on Watergate - a vier Bernstein regarded as silly. Bernstein voted for McGovern, unenthusiastically and unhesitatingly, then bet in the office pool that Nixon would win with 54 percent.

-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward ~ Carl Bernstein

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone. ~ Sophie Kinsella

I'd been kissed before, many times, but never like that. ~ Fisher Amelie

The more we tune into our own frequency of love, the more love will spread. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

You're working for me cut out the attitude. ~ Sophie Kinsella

OK, I have to make sure we're on the same page here. Because I might mean one thing and she might mean, intending to start a Cordon Bleu course when I get back to England. ~ Sophie Kinsella

It's very easy to look for happiness outside ourselves; in a relationship, a dream job, or the perfect body weight. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places. The outside search is based on false projections we place on the world. These projections build up a wall against true happiness, which lies within us. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

I'm overreacting, probably," Sophie says. "I just get a little bored with the abused-women-equals-art thing. It just all seems a bit eighties to me. Do you know what I mean? ~ Nick Alexander

I've learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

I think of the horizon at midnight, the sky and sea blurring together. ~ Sophie Hardcastle

Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do ... not who you are, not who you want to be. ~ Sophie Jordan

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them. ~ Sophie Kinsella

Think about how hard, not to mention ineffective, it would be to stand up in public and say, 'I did something unforgiveable that only a scoundrel would do, yet I'm not a scoundrel and you must forgive me.' It sounds like a paradox, doesn't it? Well, it's one we must embrace if we are to make any progress as a species, because we all do the bad things that only bad people would do, as well as the good things that only good people would do, which is why we mustn't hold anything against one another. If we want better apologies, we need to be more forgiving - it's as simple as that. ~ Sophie Hannah

He was the most enigmatic man she'd ever met. On the one hand he was a Thor-like sex warrior, perfectly at home slinking around the debaucherous outposts of his commercial empire, and on the other hand he was a man who craved his solitude and privacy and loved this rare and extra-ordinary setting. It was a heady combination, and it left Sophie wanting very much to know the roots of this man who existed between the two extremes. ~ Kitty French

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ... ~ Sophie Kinsella

You're mine," he said, his eyes never leaving hers as he slid inside. "You're mine."
And much later, when they were exhausted and spent, lying in each other's arms, he brought his lips to her ear and whispered, "And I'm yours. ~ Julia Quinn