Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father’s house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into my pockets. I took blush, toothpaste, two chipped finger bowls in celadon blue, a bottle of nail polish, a pair of worn patent-leather ballet slippers, and four faded white pillowcases the color of old teeth. Lisa Brennan-Jobs Read Quote
I tried to find a social niche at Harvard – a group, my group – but I was unsuccessful. Lisa Brennan-Jobs Read Quote
In literature there was always an epiphany – a tingling moment, sometimes buried – the pearl around which the whole work formed. Lisa Brennan-Jobs Read Quote
Prosciutto should be thin and let light through like stained glass. Even I know that. Lisa Brennan-Jobs Read Quote
When I was in elementary school, I watched ‘Cinema Paradiso’ 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated. Lisa Brennan-Jobs Read Quote
It’s not a fun thing to be the person set up in opposition to the work everyone loves. Lisa Brennan-Jobs Read Quote
I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn’t be. Lisa Brennan-Jobs Read Quote
In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone. We didn’t have many things, but she is warm, and we were happy. We moved a lot. We rented. Lisa Brennan-Jobs Read Quote
