“Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There’s food all around you, you know.′ ‘What kind of food, I’d like to know?’ ‘Ah’-he smiled- ‘you must taste all things, actually to know if you like them.’ And what good is that, I wanted to ask, if the most delicious fruit is forbidden?”

“Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There’s food all around you, you know.′ ‘What kind of food, I’d like to know?’ ‘Ah’-he smiled- ‘you must taste all things, actually to know if you like them.’ And what good is that, I wanted to ask, if the most delicious fruit is forbidden?”

— Claire Messud