“She sank again into the salty water…into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.”
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)
“She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.”
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