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1 " Fantasy novels reveal “emergency escape routes” from reality. Romance novels dish out a banquet of Eye Candy. Otherworldly passion erupts when the two collide in an epic novel of unforgettable characters and dire circumstances. "
2 " They lurk in the cold and dark.Hungry and,wicked,they wait for their one chance to devour the weak on Sorry Night.Then the vours feast on a banquet of fear.Your fear.They steal your soul but your body remains.No one knows the difference. "
― Simon Holt , The Devouring (The Devouring, #1)
3 " Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed. "
― Arthur Rimbaud , A Season in Hell
4 " And then the blue eyes, with gentleness, scanned all her new-made body and came to rest on her eyes. 'I have begun to eat,' said Francis Crawford. 'And I have begun to slake my thirst. But in you I have found a banquet under the heavens that will serve me for ever. "
― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)
5 " Kate was lying under him, spread on the table like a banquet for a starving man. And the scent of her arousal caused his hunger to spike suddenly and sharply from deep inside him. It surged out of him in a wave that overwhelmed him. Journey Into Submission (eXtasy) "
― Khul Waters
6 " Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves. "
― Pierce Brown , Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
7 " At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of " getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers. "
8 " It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken. "
9 " A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. "
