I can smell through my nose a pizza.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of…

— George Gissing

“I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father sees you,…

— Karen Russell

“Dinnertime!" It was Isabelle, standing framed in the door of the library. She still had the spoon in her hand, though her hair had…

— Cassandra Clare

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

— Cheryl Strayed

“You can’t forget how important coming together is, whether it be a mom and a son, a dad and a daughter, whether the family…

— Deborah L. Halliday

And later that night to be with my family at dinnertime and have things just be like they always were. That was the amazing…

— Stephen Chbosky

“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going…

— Deborah L. Halliday

“He listens when I talk.”

— Gwenda Bond

“The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art of conversation…

— Michael Pollan

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on…

— Brenda Song

When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for…

— Cat Cora

Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.

— Jeffrey Steingarten

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

— George Eliot

“Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I could…

— Gladys Taber

And if you had an, an opportunity to have a hot meal, you did. That was the cook. But you didn't stop and say,…

— Anonymous