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“I asked Mr. Wrangle what you were like. He said you were hornet juice and rosebuds in a container of gazelle meat.”

— Tom Robbins

“Baxter bounced around like a crazed cotton puff, pouncing and running in circles. I grabbed a treat from the bowl next to the door,…

— Gail Z. Martin

“Thanks, Lieutenant. Casey's going to be really excited about Saturday. Um, can we bring something?" "Like what?" "A dish?" "We have dishes. We have…

— J.D. Robb

“I bit into the oatmeal. Same levels- now the oats, well dried, but not so well watered, then the raisins, half tasteless, made from…

— Aimee Bender

“There were a thousand noises: spoons clattering, liquid being poured in glugs, a deep, unctuous bubbling from the stove. Heat blasted him in a…

— Laura Madeleine

“He was particulary drawn to these two clerks by the fact that they both had crooked noses, one bent to the left and the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on the way,…

— John Steinbeck

“I was lounging in the kitchen, enjoying the small fermata between emptying the dishwasher and reloading it. It's a glamorous life.”

— Abbi Waxman

“I liked the way he handled himself in the kitchen. I like men who cook. Men who cook are generally good lovers.”

— Janice Dickinson

“You have no spirit of culinary adventure. You need to be more like that snarky guy on the Travel Channel. He goes all over…

— Janet Evanovich

“He leaned over and removed the lid, and some really wonderful smells steamed out. But I wasn’t going to get excited, not this time,…

— Karen Chance

“After walking for a long time, he finally pulled me near a copse of bamboo that was growing near a large teak tree. He…

— Colleen Houck