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41 " This is a book. It is a book I found in a box. I found the box in the attic. The box was in the attic, under the eaves. The attic was hot and still. The air was stale with dust. The dust was from old pictures and books. The dust in the air was made up of the book I found. I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it. "

― Paul Harding

42 " Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we'd never truly tasted it before. "

― Pamela Paul , My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

43 " I could smell something. Fear.
I could taste it now.
It tasted like blood in my mouth, and I could feel it slide through me and open me up when I saw him ... "

― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)

44 " And then I tasted a sharp acid rising in my stomach. It is an acquired taste, the essence of fear. "

― Kathy Hatfield , Secret Storms: A Mother and Daughter, Lost then Found

45 " Stalin’s Russia was a trap, in which even those running the system were caught. The leaders were trapped by fear of Stalin and even he was trapped by his fear of their desire to be rid of him. Everything he had to eat or drink had to be tasted by one of his colleagues first. Beria’s behavior at his death showed that his fear was only partly paranoia. "

― Jonathan Glover

46 " And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

A novel for me is an immersive experience where I feel as if I have lived it and that I've tasted the food and experienced the sex and experienced the terror of battle. So I want all of the detail, all of the sensory things—whether it's a good experience, or a bad experience, I want to put the reader through it. To that mind, detail is necessary, showing not telling is necessary, and nothing is gratuitous. "

― George R.R. Martin

47 " Poor the man who has earned millions and millions of rupees but has never tasted the meaning of true love. "

― Avijeet Das

48 " Govinda was standing in front of him, dressed in the yellow robe of an ascetic. Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me? At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling him close to his chest and kissed him, it was not Govinda any more, but a woman, and a full breast popped out of the woman's dress, at which Siddhartha lay and drank, sweetly and strongly tasted the milk from this breast. "

― Hermann Hesse , Siddhartha

49 " I asked God " Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.” ― Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa "

50 " I hold life sacred, even more since I’ve tasted freedom,... But I've lost my fear of death... But if you join me, I will gladly give my life for you. Because this land and its people have lost too much. "

― , Snow White & the Huntsman

51 " Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to decide things for himself; he had learnt what it felt like to wash in clean water in the sunshine until he was clean himself, and what it felt like to satisfy his hunger with food that tasted good; he had learnt the sound of laughter that was free from cruelty; he had learnt the meaning of beauty "

― , I Am David

52 " Freedom does that to people, he realizes. Once you've tasted it, ou never want to let go. "

― Allen M. Steele , Coyote (Coyote Trilogy, #1)

53 " Maybe I should be still; accept my fate. But I have tasted freedom, known love – I have had choice and learnt what it is to have a human heart, not just a compliant one. "

― Dianna Hardy , 'Til Death Do Us Part (an adult retelling of The Little Mermaid)

54 " She had a flicker of memory from a time when, just for a moment, she'd been free; when the world had been wide open and she'd been about to enter it with Sam at her side. It was a freedom that she was still working for, because even though she'd tasted it only for a heartbeat, it had been the most exquisite heartbeat she'd ever experienced. "

― Sarah J. Maas , Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)

55 " The body is doing the action, body’s spare-parts are doing the action and the egoism simply does the egoism of, ‘I did’! Subtle-pride of egoism is created from this doer-ship and one is living due entirely on this basis. He simply tastes the subtle-pride of doer-ship; ‘I did’, ‘I suffered this pain’, ‘I enjoyed that happiness’. The person who gets rid of this subtle-pride will get freedom. Why does one taste this sweetness of subtle-pride of doership from infinite lives? He does this because he has never before tasted the sweetness of the Soul. "

― Dada Bhagwan

56 " My doggy ate my homework.He chewed it up," I said.But when I offered my excuseMy teacher shook her head. I saw this wasn't going well.I didn't want to fail.Before she had a chance to talk,I added to the tale:" Before he ate, he took my workAnd tossed it in a pot.He simmered it with succotashTill it was piping hot." He scrambled up my science notesWith eggs and bacon strips,Along with sautéed spelling wordsAnd baked potato chips." He then took my arithmetic And had it gently fried.He broiled both my book reports With pickles on the side." He wore a doggy apronAs he cooked a notebook stew.He barked when I objected.There was nothing I could do." " Did he wear a doggy chef hat?" My teacher gave a scowl." He did," I said. " And taking itWould only make him growl." My teacher frowned, but then I said As quickly as I could," He covered it with ketchup, And he said it tasted good." " A talking dog who likes to cook?" My teacher had a fit.She sent me to the office, And that is where I sit.I guess I made a big mistake In telling her all that.'Cause I don't have a doggy. It was eaten by my cat. "

57 " Lucas took a tentative sip of his coffee. It tasted like an otter had pissed in a tea urn and it had been left to go stale over a prolonged period. "

― Adam Maxwell

58 " Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence

59 " Cold were the lips, yet he kissed them. Salt was the honey of the hair, yet he tasted it with a bitter joy. He kissed the closed eyelids, and the wild spray that lay upon their cups was less salt than his tears.
And to the dead thing he made confession. Into the shells of its ears he poured the harsh wine of his tale. He put the little hands round his neck, and with his fingers he touched the thin reed of the throat. Bitter, bitter was his joy, and full of strange gladness was his pain. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Fisherman and His Soul

60 " I'm learning to practice gratitude for a healthy body, even if it's rounder than I'd like it to be. I’m learning to take up all the space I need, literally and figuratively, even though we live in a world that wants women to be tiny and quiet. To feed one’s body, to admit one’s hunger, to look one's appetite straight in the eye without fear or shame—this is controversial work in our culture. Part of being a Christian means practicing grace in all sorts of big and small and daily ways, and my body gives me the opportunity to demonstrate grace, to make peace with imperfection every time I see myself in the mirror. On my best days, I practice grace and patience with myself, knowing that I can't extend grace and patience if I haven't tasted it. "

― Shauna Niequist , Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes