Food Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days.”

— Adalbert De Vogue

“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing—the unsolved, the painful encounters, the…

— Jane B. Burka

“Had they known how life would become a dark, narrow hole in which they would sleep less than they ever thought possible, hardly ever…

— Hazel Woods

“The tomatoes and string beans were but chilled shadows. Tasteless shadows. Nor was there any taste to the coffee or crackers. Maybe because of…

— Haruki Murakami

“After you were lost to us, all our hours declined into evening. Evening are our streets and our houses. In this half-light that no…

— Han Kang

“Conquered by breakfast foods. A new kind of pathetic.”

— Amy McNamara

“In a bitter night, a mustard night that was last night, a good thought came and the dark was sweetened when the day sat…

— John Steinbeck

“I looked up to see the sun struggling behind a gray mass of snow clouds. I could relate. And then a beam of sunlight…

— Judith Fertig

“But there is an influence in the light of the morning that tends to rectify whatever errors of fancy, or even of judgment, we…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends to earth another false beginning. My eyes open…

— Iain Banks

“The daylight schooled the senses and the night-time developed the wits, stretched the imagination, sharpened fantasy, hammered home the memory and altered the whole…

— Fynn