Best 5 quotes of Jessica Fechtor on MyQuotes

Eli knew stuff about buildings and architecture and the history of squatters’ rights. In fact, he seemed to know something about everything. He didn’t lecture or flaunt. Rather, it was as though his whole life he’d been quietly gathering treasures. Little nuggets and gems of things he had heard or seen or read, and he was just uncurling his fingers to share them.

Food—like art, like music— brings people together, it’s true. It begins, though, with a private experience, a single person stirred, moved, and wanting company in that altered stated. So we say, “You have to taste this.” We say, “Please, take a bite.

Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.

To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.

When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more.