Why wait until New Year's Day? I feel like I've eaten so much sugar and junk in the last week or two that the day after Christmas is a great day to start a Better-Eating-Resolution. Of course, this is the morning that Chris declares that he is going to make Eggs Benedict for breakfast. Way to test my resolve, mister! And so, to combat the yumminess, I have decided to post a couple of fabulous book quotes. Maybe I'll print them out and tape them to my fridge.
First, is a depressing one (in case I find myself entering the happy delusion that fudge doesn't have calories and cinnamon rolls are practically vegetables) from So Long See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell:
"Without meaning to, she has grown heavy but she eats so little that short of starving to death there doesn't seem much she can do about it."
And next is a funny one to cheer me up after being so depressed...from Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout:
"Olive is a big person. She knows this about herself, but she wasn't always big, and it still seems something to get used to. It's true she has always been tall and frequently clumsy, but the business of being big showed up with age; her ankles puffed out, her shoulders rolled up behind her neck, and her wrists and hands seemed to become the size of a man's. Olive minds--of course she does; sometimes, privately, she minds very much. But at this stage of the game she is not about to abandon the comfort of food, and that means right now she probably looks like a fat, dozing seal wrapped in some kind of gauze bandage."
And with that, my friends, I'm off to find something to eat for breakfast that will rival an amazing hollandaise sauce or the best cinnamon rolls on earth with a negative amount of calories.
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