I finished my book!
This book was so clever. At first, you think it’s going to be the usual romantic comedy: girl meets boy, girl gets boy, girl loses boy, girl ends up with boy—happily ever after. Instead, the romance turns out to be the secondary plot.
The real story is this: a girl meets a cranky old lady named Miss Cecily, who initially rubs her the wrong way. Despite their rocky start, the girl and Miss Cecily become best friends. They have a falling out, but eventually, they find their way back to each other, learning valuable lessons along the way. End of story.
Genius!
QUOTES:
“Life has given you a path, even if it’s not your preferred one.”
― Vicky Zimmerman, Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“He’d abandoned the novel on page 146 because he didn’t like one minor character. Ridiculous to get so far and then ditch it. Kate finds it impossible to abandon books, even bad ones. It feels disloyal; maybe the book will improve, maybe the time invested will ultimately not prove wasted.”
― Vicky Zimmerman, Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“Choosing well is one of the most difficult things in a difficult world…whether applied to food, drink, companionships, or occupations. —Agnes Jekyll, A Little Dinner Before the Play”
― Vicky Zimmerman, Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“Beneath the outward signs of deterioration, the same spirit dwells and looks on with dismay at the devastation the years have wrought.”
― Vicky Zimmerman, Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“I’m not afraid of dying, Kate. I’ve been ready for years. And I learned not to be afraid of living. Fear is a terrible thing. It paralyses you far more than being stuck in an old body.” Cecily looks at her thoughtfully. “Emerson said it best: ‘What if you do fail and get fairly rolled in the dirt… Up again, you shall never be so afraid in a tumble.”
― Vicky Zimmerman, Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“It means find what nourishes your soul, discover what you’re capable of—live life well.”
― Vicky Zimmerman, Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“That’s one of the worst things about the whole indignity of getting old—things are taken from you constantly: your possessions, your hips, your eyesight.”
― Vicky Zimmerman, Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“First you are young, then you are middle-aged, then you are old, then you are wonderful. Kate will be delighted if she gets to eighty-six looking as wonderful as these women do.”
― Vicky Zimmerman, Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“Tis seldom or never the good and the clever hit it off as they should; the good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!”
― Vicky Zimmerman, Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
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