“It was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with”
“Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's what it would be like. But it wasn't just smoking or skirting around Mother. It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly fretted herself to death because you are freakishly tall and frizzy and odd. Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, You are fine with me.”
“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”
“The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”
“Cooking is about creating something delicious for someone else.”
“You can keep it a secret.... But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.”