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“sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel…

— Lemony Snicket

“I called it the garden room because it had a white wooden bed, pale green carpet, and wallpaper decorated with vines and flowers.”

— Mary Simses

“We were like bananas. Stuck together, we were ripe and yellow. But the moment one was torn apart, all the rest turned black and…

— Kit Lyman

“…the fruit merely a manifestation of what was inside the tree all along.”

— Laurie Beth Jones

“scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses”

— Lemony Snicket

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

— Charles Baudelaire

“I felt laid bare, a fruit split open to reveal a moldering inside.”

— Tosca Lee

“The riper a tree's fruit, the more stones people cast at it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“As his mouth flooded with that horrible sweet purple taste, he could actually see those grapes dull, dusty, obese and nasty, crawling up a…

— Stephen King

“Before long four dozen balls lay scattered at the base of the fence, a harvest of dirty white fruit.”

— Chad Harbach

“Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples. Cherry meat…

— Tom Robbins

“That night I wrote in my journal: "Trees are schizophrenic now and beginning to lose control, enraged with the shock of their fiery new…

— Donna Tartt