“A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.” LightAirSweetRainEmptyGhostBeastChestsAfternoonAcheGlamourDaylightUnfinishedPuddlesCarnivalsMidwaySawdustWheezing Author:Katherine Dunn
“On the good ship Lollipop Its a sweet trip To the candy shop Where bon-bon's play, On the sunny beach Of peppermint bay Lemonade stands, Everywhere Crackerjack bands, Fill the air, And there you are, Happy landings on a chocolate bar. See the sugar bowl Do a tootsie roll In a big bad devils food cake, If you eat too much, Oh, oh, You'll awake, With a tummy ache.” IfsPlayBigsToo MuchAirSweetBandDevilBarsShipsBeachAwakeShopsChocolateCakeSugarBowlsCandyAcheSunnyLandingLemonadeLollipopChocolate BarsPeppermint Author:Shirley Temple
“I don't eat food, I Thom Yorke it. What's the difference? When normal people "eat" food, they first chew it with their "teeth" until it's small enough to go through their "esophagus" and then be broken down in their "stomach" and absorbed. When I Thom Yorke food, I chew it with my Thom Yorkes until it's small enough to go through my Yorke tube. It's then broken down in my Thomach, where if I eat too much sweets, I get a mean Thommy ache! But it's okay because Jonny's usually there to rub the pain out.” PeopleIfsFirstsMeanEnoughPainDifferencesToo MuchSweetBrokenNormalOkayTeethStomachAcheTubesBroken Down Author:Thom Yorke
“The hunt isn't sustaining me. It's flowing blood that I really crave. The sweet taste of red succulent liquid mixing with the salt of my beloved as it drips and dances on his flesh. To know that someone will ache for me as much as I hunger for him and eternally satiate each other. I want someone to satisfy my hunger forever.” KnowsWantForeverBloodSweetTasteRedHungerFleshBelovedSaltAcheHuntsCraveLiquidMixingSustainingSucculents Author:Ellen Schreiber
“The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.” LightSweetShapesLongingCleanDesertAcheGeology Book:Into the Wild Source: Into the Wild
“Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him.” WritingHeartKindFacesNamesSimpleSawsFourTreeSweetWallCallingKissingDiedBridgesCrushWheelsVehicleAcheHurtfulWagonsGiggleHayChalkRolls Royce Author:Stephen King
“There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.” WayMadeStillsFeelingsRunningGoalHurtKnownStrangeSweetChasingAcheGentlenessAprilAlways Working Book:I Do Source: I Do
“Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?” YearsHeartUseRememberLostMemoriesSweetBitterFadesAchePushed Away Book:Inkspell Source: Inkspell