“Alas! the forbidden fruits were eaten, And thereby the warm life of reason congealed. A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of… — Rumi Masnavi-I Ma'navi Copy Share Image
Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy. You don't need to reach… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
“The forbidden cabinet. The forbidden fruit. That fruit is—a volume, a huge blue-lilac volume with a gold inscription slantwise: Collected Works of… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
“There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation,… — André Breton Copy Share Image
Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Jill had always wanted to know what it was like to be allowed to wear her hair long, to put on a… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
While the forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
“Then he strode across the room and kissed her. It was a crazy, impulsive act, but the minute his lips touched hers… — Kate Davies Copy Share Image
But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In Europe, nobody will bleep you, if you want to say a "bad" word on TV. The idea that some self-righteous little… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had… — Constance O'Banyon Copy Share Image
“Not since the serpent approached Eve in the Garden had a woman been so tempted by forbidden fruit.” — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
Tasting what could have been, what should have been, didn't make it easier. — Kele Moon Copy Share Image
“If you sit down and think about it sensibly , you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“the word desirable. Of course, we learn later just how seductive that can be. Early rabbinic literature showed a sexual connotation to… — Chaim Bentorah Copy Share Image
“He walked to Brooks’s, intending to drink a glass of port, eat a joint of beef, and read the Times. But even… — Laura Lee Guhrke Copy Share Image
“The snake who tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit was not the Devil, but her own instinctive nature saying, Honor your… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have you ever considered what Adam and Eve were doing when they got into so much trouble? As I read the story,… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
“People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her. It had unfurled. If her heart… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
