Supper Quotes - Page 7

• I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Nice, Home, Wine

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.175, Feiwel & Friends

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• Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That’s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, “At Your Service,” like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.

  Paulette Jiles

  Uncles, Book, Taken

  Paulette Jiles (1988). “Blackwater”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.

  Charles Simic

  Fall, Clouds, Sky

  Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.

  Cassandra Clare

  Divorce, Fire, Guests

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• El pan y la repostería, los quesos y el vino, y el azúcar entran en la Cena del cordero porque nosotros lo hacemos. Es nuestro amor el que trae la ciudad a casa. Es, lo reconozco, una esperanza incauta y extravagante. Pero sólo las esperanzas extravagantes pueden sentirse como en casa.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Inicio, Vino, Ciudades

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• Hice salsa de arándanos, y cuando estuvo hecha la puse en un cuenco azul oscuro por el bonito contraste. Estaba pensando, haciendo esto, en las antiguas formas de gratitud: Los indios daban las gracias al ciervo que habían matado, daban las gracias antes de cenar, se arrodillaban antes de acostarse. Pensaba que la gratitud está demasiado ausente en nuestras vidas y que necesitamos recuperarla, aunque sólo sea reconociendo el azul de un cuenco frente al rojo de los arándanos.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Hermoso, Gratitud, Oscuro

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). "Open House: A Novel", Random House Incorporated

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• It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hatred, Causes, Tools

  Suzanne Collins (2009). "Los Juegos del Hambre", p.16, Scholastic Inc.

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• ¡Caballeros! No nos detendremos hasta el anochecer. Pippin: Pero, ¿y el desayuno? Aragorn: Ya lo has tomado. Pippin: Ya hemos desayunado, sí. Pero ¿y el segundo desayuno? [Aragorn lo mira fijamente y luego se marcha.] Merry: No creas que sabe lo del segundo desayuno, Pip. Pippin: ¿Qué hay de las once? ¿El almuerzo? ¿El té de la tarde? ¿La cena? ¿La cena? Sabe de ellas, ¿verdad? Yo no contaría con ello, Pip.

  Peter Jackson

  Pensar, Caballero, Té

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• I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?" Will shook his head. "Supper is important!

  John Flanagan

  Names, Silence, Important

  John Flanagan (2011). “The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger's Apprentice Book 1 )”, p.118, Random House

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• A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen hearth, fry up a dozen eggs in butter, and eat them all, then lay ye down on the hearth rug and roger ye 'till you - is that all right? he inquired, noticing my look. 'Til I what? I asked fascinated by his description of the evening's program. 'Til ye burst into flame and take me with ye, I suppose, he said, and stooping, swooped me up into his arms and carried me across the darkened threshold.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Mean, Thinking, Light

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• The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

  Herman Melville

  Summer, Sunshine, Autumn

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.329

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• She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

  Barbara Pym

  Food, Wine, Simple

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• Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

  Horace

  Essence, Yesterday, Soul

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• Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

  Paul Washer

  Son, Men, Blood

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• To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Sweet, Travel, Interesting

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• Corrió el agua de la fuente, corrió el caudaloso río, corrió el día hacia el atardecer, corrió tanta vida en la ciudad hacia la muerte según la regla, el tiempo y la marea no esperaron a nadie, las ratas dormían juntas de nuevo en sus oscuros agujeros, la Bola de Fantasía se encendió en la cena, todas las cosas siguieron su curso.

  Charles Dickens

  Sueño, Oscuridad, Hombres

  charles dickens (1868). "Historia de dos ciudades", p.104

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• If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

  Winifred Holtby

  Flower, Book, Car

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). "Cartas a una amiga"

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• See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of oil. ... It is sweet as early grass butter in April. He goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveler on the prairie hunts up his own supper of game.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Hunting, Games

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.294, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully consecrate Thy precious Body of material bread, and also charitably gave it to Thy Apostles, in memory of Thy most worthy Passion

  Brigit de Kildare

  Jesus, Memories, Blessed

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• I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Life, Success, Good Night

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.77, Oxford University Press

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• All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Names, Trying, Next

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• But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Liars, Writing

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• La regla de la mayoría sólo funciona si también se tienen en cuenta los derechos individuales. Porque no puede haber cinco lobos y una oveja votando sobre qué cenar.

  Larry Flynt

  Ovejas, Derechos, Gobierno

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Muchos genios profundos, supongo, que llenan el mundo con la fama de su explosión de errores renombrados, son sin embargo todos los días planteados y desconcertados por preguntas triviales en su propia mesa de la cena.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Errors, Profound, Everyday

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• I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.'; They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason; they just love.

  Stephen Levine

  Atheist, Believe, Heart

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