Spice Quotes

“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.”
― David Rovics

“Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

“Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

“Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

“His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

“We shouldn't do this while you're upset anyway,' he says.
I move my hand down him.
'I'll be less upset once you're inside me.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“A good spice often deceives us into thinking that someone is a good cook.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Hunger is by far the best spice.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In the kingdom of spices, garlic is the king.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Can't expect to shut up a sunbeam in a box and not have it dim a little. Hm?”
― Persephone Black, Captive of the Crime Queen

“Leaning over the tray he inhaled deeply, letting the steam-laden aroma flood all the way through him. The soft green clouds with the most delicate golden crusts smelled as perfect as they looked. Pistachio with a hint of saffron. was there even such a thing as a hint of saffron? It was the loudest understated spice, like a soft-spoken person you couldn't stop listening to. Like the hidden lilts inside a well-held aria. Like the beauty within making what someone looked like on the outside meaningless, slowly, one encounter at a time. No matter how subtle you tried to make it, saffron always shone through, it became the soul of your preparation.
He nodded at Rajesh, who stood at the ready with the cashews DJ had candied to perfection with butter and brown sugar. He started to arrange three at the center of each ramekin in a clover of paisleys, then tucked a sugarwork swirl next to it to top things off just so.”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“You are the salt of the earth.
And you are here to season the world.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“The parts of me that need sanity are whispering one more taste is all I will need to finally regain my faculties. The parts already lost to you remind me a single taste of you is what brought me here, and to take more of you will be diving into my undoing. Knowing I'll never be able to get enough. You're a drug. I'm so thoroughly addicted, I can't see through the high you bring me to realize I can't exist without you anymore.”
― S.J. Stewart, Bound Blossoms and Blades: A Seven Realms Novella

“... jealousy wasn't a spice to me then. It was the whole meal and I was gagging it down.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“I have lived a thousand lives and I have loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Still, I force myself to stare into his apathetic eyes at the expense of being swallowed in their darkness. “What do you want from me?”

“Haven’t figured that out yet, but I will soon.”

“While you’re at it, you should also figure out how you’ll get out of prison.”
― Rina Kent, God of Malice

“He still looks tenfold worse than his charming appearance.

Or maybe it’s because, unlike all the people present, I’m well aware of what this devil is capable of.

I automatically take a step back and his lips tilt in a small smirk.

That’s the thing.

The freaking psycho enjoys driving me to the edge.

Hell, he gets off on it.”
― Rina Kent, God of Malice

“I’ll lose it then,” he says without blinking. “I’ll get beaten up to prove a point.”
― rina kent, God of Malice

“ So luscious! The dressing is extra-virgin olive oil and wine vinegar exquisitely melded with pureed pike liver.
The rich, full-bodied flavor of the liver seeps into the tongue, gracefully underscoring the mild sweetness of the fatty meat. I feel like I'm drowning in a tidal wave of flavor and fragrance!
Unbelievable!
How many spices must he have mixed to-"
"No. The spice used in this dish...
... is allspice alone."
"What?!"
"I thought Hayama's talent lay in the mixing of varied exotic spices to create the perfect fragrance."
"No, his skill is in manipulating fragrance itself.
He can do more than just add more spices into his recipes.
In fact, this time he subtracted spices instead.
In so doing, he accentuated the freshness and flavor of the in-season pike.”
― Yuto Tsukuda, 食戟のソーマ 12 [Shokugeki no Souma 12]

“She opened the tin to show Candace the dark red strands, a fortune in her palm, dearer than this much caviar, this many shaved truffles; it was for spices like this that Columbus had set out in his ship. "Each strand is handpicked from the center of a crocus flower that blooms two weeks of the year.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Love Season

“Fall is a textured season, that can hug your soul like a sweater...and put s.more spice in your night. It has a way of warming your eye life with soul soothing and savory fire dances that flickery with ambery, embered, ever-changing elemental light.”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“Variety is not the spice, but the very stuff of life.”
― Christopher Burney, Solitary Confinement

“I like it when you forget about being proper, Lilliane. Whether it is here and now, or last night in your bed, when you were screaming my name."
Henry Clifford”
― Mina Lisly, The Duty of Marriage

“They sculpted me from shadows, bone, and the very essence of power.
I am no mere being. I am a god.”
― Avelyn Mae , Defying the King: A Vampire Paranormal Romance

“The best thing I enjoy about a low in a relationship is recovering it to a higher level...with some extra spice!”
― Steven Magee

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection”
― Anaïs Nin, ANAIS: An International Journal, Volume 13, 1995

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
― Anaïs Nin, 7 Volume SET the Diary of Anais Nin 1943 Thru 1974

“India is bringing spice back to the spice trade, in real estate form!


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