“The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.”
“Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed”
“I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.”
“A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.”
“Thinks that it is a poor sort of life that has not known expectation, the pleasure of savoring ahead. So enjoy it while you have it, he tells himself.”
“Eventually I fall asleep, savoring the melancholy pleasures of victory. I wake with a start to a muffled sound: the wolves could not wait for us to withdraw; they are already devouring the bodies.”