"Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream."

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Source : Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin

Dorothy Allison

#Mother Quotes #Dream Quotes #Air Quotes

“The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.”
“There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled in their world. Nothing visible or capable of explanation. In fact, I'd never seen a whale. When I first witnessed their terrible death agony, I couldn't get the picture of a whale being harpooned out of my mind. It was a hideous mind-blowing sight. That day I recognised a purpose on the journey of my life.”
“When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.”
“The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.”
“The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.”
“Why am i here? What's my purpose?”
“If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.”
“To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.”

Source : Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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