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“I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
― Mother Teresa

“The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.”
― Victor Hugo, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo

“A soul for a piece of bread. Misery makes the offer; society accepts.”
― Victor Hugo

“In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in order to live, I will not steal a name.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Meanwhile, spring came, and with it the outpourings of Nature. The hills were soon splashed with wild flowers; the grass became an altogether new and richer shade of green; and the air became scented with fresh and surprising smells -- of jasmine, honeysuckle, and lavender.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama

“9:09 in the morning, the taste of liquor and cigarettes, no police, no lovers, walking the streets, this poem, this city, closing its doors, barricaded, almost empty, mournful without tears, aging without pity, the hardrock mountains, the ocean like a lavender flame, a moon destitute of greatness, a small music from broken windows… a poem is a city, a poem is a nation, a poem is the world…”
― Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned

“Bring me warm rain and dried lavender and you. I want you most of all.”
― Emery Allen

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground