Top 60 Erica Bauermeister Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.”

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2. “Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.”

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3. “Marriage is a leap of faith. You are each other’s safety net.”

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4. “We’re all just ingredients. What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal.”

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5. “In the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.”

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6. “We are the unwitting carriers of our parents’ secrets, the ripples made by stones we never saw thrown.”

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7. “We sat in silence, letting the green in the air heal what it could.”

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8. “A signature scent is a brand,” she said. “It works fabulously for helping people make emotional connections with places, but if a person wears the same perfume all the time, you risk muddying the memories.”

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9. “I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.”

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10. “She said, ‘You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.’”

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11. “It was like trying to teach subtlety to a thunderstorm.”

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12. “Each person’s heart breaks in it’s own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.”

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13. “It’s amazing how easily we can cast ourselves in the role of hero.”

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14. “Scents were like rain, or birds. They left and came back.”

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15. “The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.”

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16. “If you live in your senses, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you’ll never need a greeting card to make you remember.”

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17. “I hadn’t realized how much I counted on the emotional armor of his friendship until it wasn’t there, and.”

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18. “Maybe that’s how it always is, I thought – we all just go along, catching glimpses of one another, thinking we know everything.”

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19. “You’re not traveling if you already know everything.”

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20. “A risk is a risk because it’s avoidable.”

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21. “You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.”

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22. “And that night she dreamed in French.”

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23. “Suddenly she was seeing the buds on the cherry trees around her; she could feel the energy packed within them, a bouquet of fireworks whose fuse had already been lit. She could smell them, too, a subtle essence of pink and lollipops, the sweetness deepened by the scent of the slowly warming earth below them.”

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24. “When it was mixed together, the salsa was a celebration of red and white and green, cool and fresh and alive. On a tortilla, with a bit of crumbled white ‘queso fresco,’ it was both satisfying and invigorating, full of textures and adventures, like childhood held in your hand.”

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25. “Caroline had felt more comfortable thinking of beauty as something separate from her, like a scarf or a coat you could check before going in to a show. She wondered now, however, if she had treated more things as a part of herself rather than an accessory, perhaps everything would have turned out differently.”

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26. “The more she cooked, the more she began to view spices as carriers of the emotions and memories of the places they were originally from and all those they had traveled through over the years.”

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27. “Helen found ways to sneak summer into the dark months of the year, canning and freezing the fruit off their trees in July and August and using it extravagantly throughout the winter- apple chutney with the Thanksgiving turkey, raspberry sauce across the top of a December pound cake, blueberries in January pancakes.”

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28. “Maybe your mind won’t remember what I cooked last week, but your body will.”

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29. “It felt as if my whole life had been shaped by things people wouldn’t say.”

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30. “The kids threw the rumors out like lit matches, to see what would catch. I stayed silent, listening to the fizz and spark of their words, pretending I was water, putting them out.”

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31. “When she realized that there are many kinds of love and not all of them are obvious. That some wait like presents in the back of the closet until you are able to open them.”

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32. “I listened, while the scents found their hiding places in the cracks in the floorboards, and the words of the story, and the rest of my life.”

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33. “Jack’s marketing books had been a part of her life for so long that she had ceased to register their presence, simply moving them from the couch to the coffee table, from the bed to the nightstand. How to Sell Everything to Anybody. Eight Great Habits of CEOs. They all seemed to involve numbers, as if you could simply count yourself to riches, like following sheep to sleep.”

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34. “I think one of the most fascinating things about perfumes is how they change with each person’s skin chemistry. I’ve always thought of them as verbs, not nouns. Truth, I’ve found, is much the same.”

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35. “She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes – a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.”

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36. “Scents were always about what was growing and what was dying. What would last through the next season. This was just with people instead of trees or flowers or dirt. Maybe I could read them after all. The thought gave me hope.”

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37. “There were moments in life, Marion thought, when you reached back, baton in hand, feeling the runner behind you. Felt the clasp of their fingers resonating through the wood, the release of your hand, which then flew forward, empty, into the space ahead of you.”

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38. “I’ve been wondering,” Isabelle commented reflectively over dessert, “if it is foolish to make new memories when you know you are going to lose them.”

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39. “Her song was so beautiful that it could take people back to all the things they wished they had done, and all the things they wished they could be.”

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40. “Back before there was time, I lived with my father on an island, tucked away in an endless archipelago that reached up out of the cold salt water, hungry for air.”

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41. “Everyone else thought it was magic, but I knew better. In the end, it wasn’t the flavors or the alcohol that made people relax – it was the experience of being seen and understood.”

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42. “Picking up a book was a decision: I’m going to go away. The exciting possibility: I may not come back the same.”

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43. “My father had always told me that my birthday was the first day of spring. Not a specific day of the year, but the feeling- an undercurrent of warmth waking up the earth. The scent of violets. Green in the air, he called it.”

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44. “We humans are almost entirely made of water, except for the stones of our secrets. May mine become solid places to land your feet as you cross the wide river of your life.”

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45. “Did you know that otters sleep holding hands? All night long, so they don’t lose each other.”

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46. “Foragers feast,” my father would say, and we’d set out into the woods, cedar bark baskets in our hands. In the summer, we harvested bright red huckleberries, and salal berries so dark blue they looked like night in your hand. In the fall, we found mushrooms hiding under the trees- I was captivated by the convoluted morels, each one a labyrinth of nooks and crannies.”

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47. “Because wasn’t that what art was all about, in the end? Mentally shoplifting your way through the world around you, the thoughts inside you? Looking for the thing that makes it all click. Makes it all start. Makes it all worthwhile and whole and good again. That could take a while. You might have to wander, but that didn’t mean you were lost.”

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48. “All that matters is that we try. pg. 79.”

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49. “She’d be okay, he told himself, and he needed to be somewhere else. Somewhere so completely else that the grief wouldn’t find him. Ignoring the fact that grief is not a stalker but a stowaway, always there and up for any journey.”

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50. “I guess I just like the idea of possibility. Like an invitation, not an answer, you know? It gives you something to think about later.”

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