1) "Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an
apple tree and listen to the
apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.","Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum"
2) "No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,d
appled with scars, still exuberantly budding,our animal passion rooted in the city.","Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language"
3) "With a chaste heart With pure eyes I celebrate your beautyHolding the leash of bloodSo that it might leap out and trace your outline Where you lie down in my Ode As in a land of forests or in surfIn aromatic loam, or in sea musicBeautiful nudeEqually beautiful your feetArched by primeval tap of wind or soundYour ears, small shellsOf the splendid American seaYour breasts of level plentitudeFulfilled by living lightYour flying eyelids of wheatRevealing or enclosingThe two deep countries of your eyesThe line your shoulders have divided into pale regionsLoses itself and blends into the compact halves of an
apple Continues separating your beauty down into two columns ofBurnished goldFine alabasterTo sink into the two grapes of your feetWhere your twin symmetrical tree burns again and risesFlowering fireOpen chandelierA swelling fruit Over the pact of sea and earth From what materialsAgate?Quartz?Wheat?Did your body come together?Swelling like baking bread to signal silvered hills The cleavage of one petal Sweet fruits of a deep velvet Until alone remainedAstonished The fine and firm feminine form It is not only light that falls over the world spreading inside your bodyYet suffocate itselfSo much is clarity Taking its leave of youAs if you were on fire within The moon lives in the lining of your skin.",Pablo Neruda
4) "Mass is not proportional to volume. A girl as small as a violet. A girl who moves like a flower petal is pulling me toward her with more force than her mass. Just then, like Newton’s
apple, I rolled toward her without stopping until I fell on her, with a thump. With a thump. My heart keeps bouncing between the sky and the ground. It was my first love.","Kim In-yook, “The Physics of Love”"
5) "Do not ask your childrento strive for extraordinary lives.Such striving may seem admirable,but it is the way of foolishness.Help them instead to find the wonderand the marvel of an ordinary life.Show them the joy of tastingtomatoes,
apples and pears.Show them how to crywhen pets and people die.Show them the infinite pleasurein the touch of a hand.And make the ordinary come alive for them.The extraordinary will take care of itself.","William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents"
6) "You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on
apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.",Anton Chekhov
7) Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of
apple orchards on late June.,"Carl Sandburg, Honey and Salt"
8) I had a dream about you last night.. you were trying to give coordinates to an
apple,"Nicole McKay, I Had a Dream About You"
9) "Millions saw the
apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?",Bernard M. Baruch
10) "For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is ""Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat
apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.","Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window"
11) "Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the
apple for the
apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.","Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson"
12) "Well,” Tessa said, sighting along the line of the knife, “you behave as if you dislike me. In fact, you behave as if you dislike us all.”“I don’t,” Gabriel said. “I just dislike him.” He pointed at Will.“Dear me,” said Will, and he took another bite of his
apple. “Is it because I’m better-looking than you?","Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince"
13) "Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like
applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.",Groucho Marx
14) "Well then,"" Roen said briskly, ""are you sleeping?""""Yes.""""Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?""""No,"" Brigan said gravely. ""I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south.""""Gracious,"" Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. ""Have an
apple, dear.","Kristin Cashore, Fire"
15) "Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. 'Will you swear?'And Myrnin said, shockingly, 'I will.' And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, '—frothy fool-born
apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!' and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. 'Is that what you meant, my lord?","Rachel Caine, Feast of Fools"
16) "Kira: L, do you knowGods of deathlove
apples?L: Damn you, Kira...","Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note, Vol. 2: Confluence"
17) "He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an
apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.","Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch"
18) "Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and
apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's ""So Yesterday,"" both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.","Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief"
19) "It smells terrible in here.'Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of
apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.","John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces"
20) Becky Renee
apple - can you believe her mom named her that and then had all of her sweaters monogramed with 'BRA'?,"P.C. Cast, Burned"
21) "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.","Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"