“They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.”
“Savor the sweet taste before the sour one arrives”
“She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.”
“one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.”
“This isn't kissing. This is savoring your taste.”
“I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.”