Quotes / Consuming Passion

He shrugged, and quoted an old Ithorian proverb current in some sections of the spaceways: "N'ygyng mth'une vned 'isobec'k'chuv 'ysobek.'"
Which, loosely translated, means: "The word for 'love' in one language is the word for 'dinner' in others."

— Nightlily: The Lovers' Tale

"I believe beauty can only truly be appreciated through taste."

— Uri, American Cyborg: Steel Warrior

…much of what we eat is still living: animated characters that don't particularly want to be eaten. … And the narrative voice eggs us on with purple prose, rising to something disturbingly orgasmic on the final bite....
I'm not sure that this isn't meant to be a sexual experience. Certainly it's a sensual one. Imagine, for a moment, that the Deadly Sin under examination were not gluttony, but lust: The tone makes it a very easy jump from one to the other, and I believe it to be intentional.

— Christopher Huang's review of Eat Me

Please don't go, I'll eat you whole
I love you so, I love you so, I love you so

—alt-J, "Breezeblocks"

We should have each other to dinner
We should have each other with cream
Then curl up in the fire, get for a while
It's the grooviest thing, it's the perfect dream

—The Cure, "Lovecats"

Crushing people and eating them are no different. (...) Senpai's no exception. No- he's the only one I want to kill, Nee-san....Yes. I quickly- want to consume Senpai.

— Dark Sakura, Fate/stay night

In any case, my friends, it's too late!
Like a moth to light, like a beast to bait,
and I know the black widow eat its mate;
it's wrong but I want you tonight!

— The Correspondents, "Fear And Delight"

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