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“Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation; now it’s all about consumption and calories.”

Book:Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

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“HONEY: (Apologetically, holding up her brandy bottle) I peel labels. GEORGE: We all peel labels, sweetie; and when you get through the skin, all three layers, through the muscle, slosh aside the organs (An aside to NICK) them which is still sloshable--(Back to HONEY) and get down to bone...you know what you do then? HONEY: (Terribly interested) No! GEORGE: When you get down to bone, you haven't got all the way, yet. There's something inside the bone...the marrow...and that's what you gotta get at. (A strange smile at MARTHA)”

Labels Facade Marrow Bone

Book:WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

Source: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

“I beg you, eat me up. Want me down to the marrow.”

Love Marrow Bone

Author:Hélène Cixous

“Sadness is an emotion you can trust. It is stronger than all of the other emotions. It makes happiness look fickle and untrustworthy. It pervades, lasts longer, and replaces the good feelings with such an eloquent ease you don't even feel the shift until you are suddenly wrapped in its chains.”

Marrow

Book:Marrow

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“She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.”

Art Artist Creativity Drink Sugar Creative Process Marrow

Book:Hourglass Museum

Source: Hourglass Museum

“What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.--Irish Proverb”

Marrow Bone Bone Deep

Book:The Last Bride in Ballymuir

Source: The Last Bride in Ballymuir

“I always thought it was remarkable that the oyster coats its enemy not only in something beautiful, but a part of itself. And while diamonds are embraced with warm excitement, regarded to be of highest, deepest value, the pearl is somewhat overlooked. Its humble beginnings are that of a parasite, growing in something that is alive, draining its host of beauty. It’s clever— the plight of the splinter. A sort of rags to riches story.”

Marrow

Author:Tarryn Fisher

“Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so...ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? Shit, I made my first million on useless antiradiation pills during dirty bomb scares.”

Manipulation Government Corruption Pharmaceutical Industry Scares

Book:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Sul mio cuore ci sono cicatrici altrettanto spesse e deturpanti di quelle che ho in viso. So che ci sono. Spero che resti un po’ di tessuto integro, una chiazza attraverso la quale l’amore possa penetrare e defluire. Lo spero.”

Love Resilience Scares

Author:Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

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