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“Since you exited from my life story, it seems as if time stands still, and my soul has become trapped in that very moment. It's like a coiled spring that can extend and stretch, but ultimately, it always returns to its original shape—back to that frozen moment in time.”

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Book:Digging Up Love

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“She sports her standard winter concert dress: a sleeveless black velvet top and a red raw silk skirt. She reminds Ray of a china doll or Snow White with her dark hair, ivory skin, and bright red lipstick. How in the world has a man not swooped her up by now? That's one of life's greatest mysteries.”

Book:The Wedding Machine

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“I was curious about the foreign foods I would come to know as chorizo, fire-roasted piquillo peppers, La Mancha saffron sealed in blue clay jars, Serrano ham, and pickled eggplant. That kitchen smelled like a cross between my maestro's kitchen and Borgia's. It had the clean airiness I was accustomed to, but a tang of briny olives and smoked meats flavored the air.”

Book:The Book of Unholy Mischief

Source: The Book of Unholy Mischief

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Book:Comfort Food

Source: Comfort Food

“Spaniards seem not to recognize such a thing as a light diet. They give the same food to sick people as to well ones — always the same rich, greasy cookery, with everything sodden in olive oil.”

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Book:Homage to Catalonia

Source: Homage to Catalonia

“Not to mention the endless Saturday afternoon lunches with the entire family, savoring calamares, gazpacho, pescaito frito, flounder seviche, solomillo al queso, a fillet in blue cheese sauce, and arroz con leche.”

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Book:Comfort Food

Source: Comfort Food

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Book:Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City

Source: Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City

“towards them came a great hulking fellow with a nut-brown velvet coat, his face purple with good cheer from a near-by bistro, his eyes blurred, his walk unsteady.”

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Book:The Scapegoat

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Book:Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire

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Book:My Magnolia Summer

Source: My Magnolia Summer