“Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart.”
“He wanted to pull her inside his skin and carry her around close to his heart.”
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
“On the third day, it hit me what he was doing. He was taking his time. Allowing me to chat with townsfolk, window shop, smell the flowers, taste the foods and drink in the landscape. He was giving me his world.”
“Isabel turns down Oak toward the little vintage shop at Fourth Avenue, thinking of lunch—the Chinese place in Old Town, casting around inside herself for hunger, imagining the tastes of things.”
“A winetaster carries his tasting equipment with him wherever he goes, but it is at home that it is most finely tuned.”