Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, And What We Ate: A Memoir Quotes

we eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.

Foods are like men: some are good, some are bad, and some are okay only in small doses. But most should be tried at least once.

And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don’t regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.

At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.

At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what’s flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.