Acts of love Quote by Salman Rushdie

“We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.”

— Rob Bignell

“History’s smell. Like old roses on a breeze. It would lurk forever in ordinary things. In coat hangers. Tomatoes. In the tar on roads.…

— Arundhati Roy

“I must tell you a great truth, Much-Afraid, which only the few understand. All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories,…

— Hannah Hurnard

“We were bullied, broken, built up, bronzed and polished. We grew dull, dusty, doubtful, dark, and forgetful. Yet we still know that we can…

— Antonia Perdu

“But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words…

— Steven Erikson

“The sweetness of taste of the truth.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working…

— Anonymous

“Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.”

— Sydney Smith

“One thing seemed to suggest that I might have some wisp of beauty to offer the world: the nature of my heart, which remained…

— Dean Koontz

“Isn’t it better that we send them off once and for all beneath the glow of carnival lights, with the taste of treats on…

— Chang-rae Lee