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“Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.”

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Book:Moon Gypsy

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“O, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear them that will go to cream in your mouth, and both passing down with such a taste that will make you close your eyes and wish you might live for ever in the wideness of that rich moment.”

Happiness Food

Book:HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

“She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion): she understood them all.”

Religion Food Television

Book:Abarat: Absolute Midnight

Source: Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And potatoes.”

Food Dragon Teasing

Book:Dragon Actually

Source: Dragon Actually

“Pie may just be the Madonna-whore of the dessert world.”

Food Pie

Book:American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads― A Delicious Food Journey Across America

Source: American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads― A Delicious Food Journey Across America

“Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.”

Art Mystery Food France Afghanistan Detective Mystery Suspense Provence Orphan Stories Foreign Culture

Book:Coyote in Provence

Source: Coyote in Provence

“No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy.”

Food Melancholy Gastronomy Satiation Red Inn

Book:The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

Source: The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

“Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.”

“Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial?”

Food Jam Crumpets Abrosia

Book:Any human heart

Source: Any human heart

“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.”

Writing Poetry Time Space Creativity Balance

Author:Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“The trend in modern American culture is toward ever more individualized eating... and with every food added to the list of things one does not eat, the shorter becomes the list of people with whom one can enjoy table fellowship... for those of us whose health permits, partaking readily of whatever is offered can be a way of affirming that eating together is at least as important as whatever it is that is eaten.”

Food Fellowship

Book:Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life

Source: Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life

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