Food and drink Quote by Masaji Ishikawa

“A few days after Eiko’s wedding, we learned Young had hanged himself. In his suicide note he wrote: I’ve lost face so much, I…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“I buried him on the far side of the mountain in Dong Chong-ri, facing south toward the sea. That way he could see South…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“How thin she is in her coffin, how sharp her nose has grown! Her eyelashes lie straight as arrows. And, you know, when she…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It had come as a relief when she had been forced to go into the hospital in Emporia, where she could be given drugs…

— Nancy Pickard

“Her parents were killed in their private helicopter. An elite death but at the moment of dying we are all penniless. She never spoke…

— Salman Rushdie

“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure…

— Alice Hoffman

“The loss is hers. Let her remain in this ugly world, full of diseased and soulless people. While I and the true goddesses soar…

— Andrea Kane

“A lot of corpses woke up every morning from their graves. Stood in front of the mirror and wore the masks which made them…

— Akshay Vasu

The wife's Mother said, ‘When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I'm being buried at sea’.

— Les Dawson

“Still others, like Kavita, just sit and sit, sometimes for hours. They are the ones, she now understands, who are mourning. Like her, they…

— Shilpi Somaya Gowda

“This was most alarming, what sort of terrible toil had deranged the poor woman? Would I also have to work day and night till…

— Leonora Carrington

“And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They…

— Toni Morrison