“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”

“Arakawa: Of course. I love to take care of them and also eat them.”

Hiromu Arakawa (1973) award winning Japanese manga artist

“Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.”

John Hodgman book The Areas of My Expertise

“My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them. ”

Kirk Douglas (1916–2020) American stage and film actor

“Animals are my friends… and I don't eat my friends.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

“I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

“I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

“Many childless single woman would be at my age already in panic. Also I have been thinking for the last 3 years, why I have been sacrificing so much time for my work. But, I have ended up to a thought that I would never change a single day out of my life. It would be lovely to get a family one day, but my life doesn't end even if that would not happen.”

Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician