Companion Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“Once she was separated from the cockles & clams, she found herself miraculously transformed into a Goddess. But she found herself different from the…

— Nicholas Chong

“The flock of birds always living in her chest these days had been startled. They flund themselves against the confines of her ribs, beating…

— Kiersten White

“When Good gave Eve that extra rib? He should have given us something extra too. Like mental telepathy.”

— Emma Chase

“The only thing left to her keeping were a bloody old rag and a creased photograph of the ocean which she held pressed to…

— Robert Gatewood

“She lifted the girl's shirt, showing her ribs and the pointy bumps of her spine. They were like the bones of some animal who'd…

— Amy Goldman Koss

“During the day she carried her boy, bandaged and fed the wounded, leaving her own festering wounds until night-time when she licked them and…

— Paullina Simons

“As the thick liquid slips down her throat and into her belly, Alba starts to feel warm and soft, as if the kitchen has…

— Menna van Praag

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

— Louis Kronenberger

“Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin.”

— Arundhati Roy

“The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell. It coiled in her guts as she wedged herself amongst the boughs of a tree…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the…

— Kathleen Winsor

“She found a mossy hollow between the roots of a tree and, putting on her mackintosh, huddled down in her makeshift bed. She ate…

— William Boyd