Ambrosia Quotes

“Kindness and caring are ambrosia for the soul.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree

“Close to the stem, he said, closest to the earth, their perfume is complex, not sugar: closer to flesh, the flesh of a loved one, not sanitized, not anodyne, but full of many waters. Strawberries and spring, strawberries and musk, strawberries and sex flooded back as I crushed my tongue to sugar.”
― C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

“Essex made a face. 'Ambrosia is not my drink.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Sundial

“Shang lets her take control, setting the pace. It's maddening just how close he gets only for Eden to ease up at the last second. It's wonderfully cruel. It leaves him wanting more, just within reach. She's prolonging this, he realizes. The glint in her eyes tells him that she's having more than a little fun.
"Eden," he rasps. His voice sounds foreign to his own ears. He sounds desperate.
"Relax," she coos. "Relax, honey. I'll help you."
He gasps against her lips as she continues her loving strokes, the tension in the pit of his stomach growing tighter and tighter with every pass. "Fuck, I'm going to---"
"Come on. That's it."
Shang reaches down to come in his own hand, drunkenly kissing Eden like she's ambrosia.
He'd gladly starve if it meant he could drink the taste of her lips forever.”
― Katrina Kwan, Knives, Seasoning, & A Dash of Love

“These are taken from inside the fruit of the cacao tree-- Theobroma cacao. It means 'food of the gods.'" He beamed. "Si, señora"-- he tipped the tiny pods into her other palm-- "in your hand, you hold the equivalent of ambrosia. An ambrosia we turn into nectar.”
― Karen Brooks, The Chocolate Maker's Wife

“Psych is a mortal whom the god Eros falls in love with. She is given ambrosia on Mount Olympus and weds Eros as a god.”

“I’ll be up for tenure in a few years. Does that count?”
― Anton Hur, Toward Eternity