Цитаты из книги Greedy

Know yourselves. Know who you are, accept it, and move on. Stop creating these false narratives of yourselves as altruistic saviors.

“It’s hard to give up things that make us feel good mentally, even though they’re terrible for us physically”

Who the hell would want a photo of themselves with a human-sized pig?

These people have diaries busier than a whorehouse in the trenches.

True wealth, Ed is learning, is not flaunted. It is discreet, tasteful, and proud.

“Game?” the senator asks nervously. Hazeline nods at the rib bone in the center of the table. “Spin the bottle meets Russian roulette. I came up with it myself,” she chuckles. “Whoever the bone lands on will have the great honor of being the sacrifice for our next meal.”

Ed decides his tactic for the next thirty-six hours. He will cook simple meals he’s confident with and cannot possibly make a mess of. But he will be brave and try to do something unexpected, adding a little twist that will appease Hazeline’s eccentric style. Something to tick off her requirement for something unique, without being so wild as to ruin the meal. He’ll play it safe, but the food won’t be bad or bland enough for her to dismiss before he can complete the two-day trial.

After all, don’t you have to have an excess of something before you can be greedy?

His name will become a joke. A literal pun—Cook can’t cook!

They are presented with menus, a single sheet of silky gampi paper, hand-painted calligraphy forming the menu of the day. Ed begins to salivate as his eyes trail down the options—some sounding delicious, some bizarre. Buttered lobster, Kobe Wagyu beef mix, pickled crocodile, fried crickets, python carpaccio, glazed pork belly, grilled snapper, kangaroo skewers, and alpaca steak. Ed blinks, unsure of what to choose.

For me, I feel a meal without meat is merely a side dish.

The other, much larger part, feels rage that while he is struggling to put food on the table for his own small family of three, this woman is wasting so much that she needs an industrial-grade machine to disintegrate it into ash. Does the thought cross her mind that people would scramble for her leftovers if given the opportunity?

The cruelest creature is a teenage girl.

Desperation is what keeps us fed, watered, and wealthy.

The inner mind can be a tumultuous place.