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  1. Markus Zusak _ Getting the Girl

    And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through me. I could feel it on its hands and knees inside me, rising up, rising up - and I smiled.I smiled, thinking, The hunger, because I knew it all too well.The hunger.The desire.Then, slowly, as we walked on, I felt the beauty of it, and I could taste it, like words inside my mouth.
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  2. Markus Zusak _ Getting the Girl

    I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through the city and wonder where they've been, and what the moments of their lives have done to them. If they're anything like me, their moments have held them up and shot them down.Sometimes I just survive.But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.That's when the stories show up in me.They find me all the time.They're made of underdogs and fighters. They're made of hunger and desire and trying to live decent.The only trouble is, I don't know which of those stories comes first.Maybe they all just merge into one.We'll see, I guess.I'll let you know when I decide.
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  3. Michael Dorris _ Rooms in the House of Stone:

    Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet. - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization."
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  4. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her. There was an instability in it, a sickness. I was seeing things that weren't there. I was only one step away from some trailer park loner stalking a girl he'd spotted in the mall. For the truth of it was: Pippa and I saw each other maybe twice a year; we e-mailed and texted, though with no great regularity; when she was in town we loaned each other books and went to the movies; we were friends; nothing more. My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless, unrequited obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?
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  5. Michael Pollan _ Cooked: A Natural History of

    We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.
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  6. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    Many of the so-called American characteristics,' a chronicler of the {WW2 University of Minnesota starvation} experiment wrote, '-abounding energy, generosity, optimism-become intelligible as the expected behavior response of a well-fed people.
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  7. Hilary Mantel _ Bring Up the Bodies

    Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.
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  8. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time."
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  9. Tahir Shah _ House of the Tiger King: The

    Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.
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  10. Roxane Gay _ Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

    Mon corps est une cage. Mon corps est une que que je me suis fabriquée. Je suis encore en train de rechercher le moyen de m'en échapper.
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  11. Roxane Gay _ Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

    Here I am showing you the ferocity of my hunger. Here I am, finally freeing myself to be vulnerable and terribly human. Here I am, reveling in that freedom. Here. See what I hunger for and what my truth has allowed me to create.
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  12. Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Shadow

    Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
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