Sublime

Longs for his positive qualities to be universally recognized but never mentioned.

There are things in it that will ruin their appetites. But in the end this is a book about the pleasures of eating, the kinds of pleasure that are only deepened by knowing.

The growing need for food is forcing millions of people to resort to eating animals that should be left alone.

he was a cannibal (maybe the only habit that makes murdering people seem borderline normal), and he longed to surround himself with corpses in the hope that they would become surrogates for the human relationships he could not sustain in day-to-day life (’nuff said).

ersatz.

(Unlike Jacob, she never gave an ostensible explanation for moving away from him, she never “forgot something.”

When he bought a sandwich from a food cart, his voice was so soft that he had to repeat himself three times in order to be heard.

Flannery