“Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.”
– Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
“When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole”
– Tina Carreiro, Power of the Moon
“Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
“I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don’t know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.”
– Ally Condie, Matched
On this anniversary of 9/11: a remarkable songwriting achievement. Alan Jackson took a tragedy as his topic. He didn’t write a song about anger. He didn’t write a song about revenge. He wrote a song about love.
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.”
– Anais Nin