Admirer Quote by Djuna Barnes

Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her,…

— Anonymous

“Eating was a welcome distraction, not for us but for them . However the piles on the plates clashed (macaroni cheese sauce oozing orangely…

— Kirk Curnutt

“…   not my own opinion, but my wife’s: Yesterday, when weary with writing, I was called to supper, and a salad I had…

— Johannes Kepler

“I want you to be able to see clearly." He paused, and she saw his jaw tighten. "Everything." What did that mean? Perhaps more…

— Megan Frampton

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his…

— Leonard Sweet

“Moreover, these town toasts ate magnificently, and boasted of the quality of the meals their admirers provided for them. It was the age not…

— A.J. Liebling

“But Beatrice Blaine! There was a woman! Early pictures taken on her father's estate at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, or in Rome at the Sacred…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And now, restored to the status of daughter in her own home, Amina began to feel the emotions of other people's food seeping into…

— Salman Rushdie

“The inn's guests were sometimes friendly, but more often they were rude. As bad as the ones who stared were the ones who looked…

— Gail Carson Levine

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That…

— Adam Johnson

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.

— Rose Quiello