Appetite Quote by Willa Cather

“These were the distractions I had to choose from. There were no other lights burning downtown after nine o'clock. On starlight nights I used…

— Willa Cather

It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did…

— Madeleine Roux

There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“So they went out for a walk. They went through narrow, lightless lanes, where houses that were silent but gave out smells of fish…

— Amit Chaudhuri

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

— Neil Gaiman

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

— Susan Strasberg

“For the plague-stricken their peace of mind is more important than a human life. Decent folks must be allowed to sleep easy o' nights,…

— Albert Camus

“That night for the first time in my life I realized that it is the physical presence of people and their spirits that gives…

— Ishmael Beah

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the…

— Angela Carter

The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in…

— Steven Brust

The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked…

— Charles Dickens

“What he wanted was colours which would appear stronger and clearer in artificial light. He did not particularly care if they looked crude or…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans