Forgiveness Quote by Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“Fruit free of any bruises, not yet broken open, / With flesh so firm and smooth, it cried out to be eaten!”

— Charles Baudelaire

“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that passed through her.…

— Nadifa Mohamed

“I shall arm myself with a knife" said Mr. Hale: "the days of eating fruit so primitively as you describe are over with me.…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Leaving this changeling for George, she washed his ripe fruit, and bit and broke the skin. An intense tang, the underside of velvet. Then…

— Allegra Goodman

The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from…

— Rumi

“In May, when the grass was so green it hurt to look at it, the air so overpoweringly sweet you had to go in…

— Jane Hamilton

“The Ripe Fig Now that You live here in my chest, anywhere we sit is a mountaintop. And those other images, which have enchanted…

— Rumi

“We all enter this world as potential barefoot fruitarians. Fruit has that up front mixture of appeals, vibrant colours, the tantalising textures and deliciously…

— Mango Wodzak

“In hidden orchards the stone fruit ripened so fast that what we didn't eat was given to the animals, and so like chimps like…

— C Pam Zhang

“There is an ache in my chest today, sweet, searching, and painful, like a tongue that is cut and tingles with sweetness and pain…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

“Ripened Fruit Do you remember how you came into existence? You may not remember because you arrived a little drunk. Let me give you…

— Rumi

“Now and then, an inch below the water's surface, the muscles of his stomach tightened involuntarily as he recalled another detail. A drop of…

— Ian McEwan