“Suddenly, out of the mist came a parachute with a fresh Hershey chocolate bar from America. It took me a week to eat that
candy bar. I hid it day and night. The chocolate was wonderful, but it wasn't the chocolate that was most important. What
it meant was that someone in America cared. That parachute was something more important than candy. It represented hope.
Hope that someday we would be free. Without hope the soul dies.”
― Michael O. Tunnell
“Cynthia sighs, contemplating a fruit and nut bar. 'Chocolate,' she says despairingly. 'Safer than cocaine, easier to get
hold of than Prozac. The government's most effective way to prevent revolution.”
― Jennifer Gilby Roberts
“We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex.”
― Sara Sheridan
“Are bacon and chocolate the foundation of a good meal? No, everybody knows
that is a deep fryer and/or gravy. However, I have long held the notion that you can't name a food that I can't improve by
adding either bacon or chocolate.”
― Aaron Blaylock
“Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan
“You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones
you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful
comes up. Now I just have to
polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.”
― Haruki Murakami
“If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to
have chocolate under the pillow.”
― Wilkie Collins
“I'd much rather be eating a bar of chocolate or even something healthy like a lettuce leaf alone at my desk than sitting
through this silent, painful meal.”
― Sarah Darer Littman
“Azel was an aficionado in killing and in chocolate cake.”
― E.J. Koh
“Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey
cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the
Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the
capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet
concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”
― Sarah Vowell
“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
― Joanne Harris, Chocolat
“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity
and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in
any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
― John Green
