Quote by Salman Rushdie

“What it wanted were minds to fill with gnawing pestilence and souls it could eat raw and squirming.”

— Tim Curran

“It was the small things she took pleasure in. The faint hum of a huge furry bumble bee busily flitting from one flower to…

— Kathryn Hughes

“She feels like someone has planted a tree in her chest and then pressed fast foward on the world, branches growing and twisting and…

— Carrie Ryan

“but when I told her they didn’t cost one penny and were very nutritious (I made that part up, but I’m sure it must…

— Ruth Reichl

“She wondered how trees became petrified, if the same process worked with a human heart.”

— Jodi Picoult

“What has she eaten to be so awake this early, and where can I get some of this magical substance?”

— Leah Rae Miller

“...all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly...…

— John Geddes

“And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.”

— Fannie Flagg

“Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.”

— China Miéville

“This was a person who operated best and most efficiently when she was truly and genuinely pissed off; wishing for her to mellow out…

— John Scalzi

“Robin used to hate to see me eat. I chewed too long for her taste. One day I figured it out. She had put…

— Bill Callahan

“She had turned away and was watching a duck out on the lake. It was tucking into weeds, a thing I've never been able…

— P.G. Wodehouse