Empty Plates Quotes

1. "There were never strawberries like the ones we hadthat sultry afternoonsitting on the stepof the open french windowfacing each otheryour knees held in minethe blue plates in our lapsthe strawberries glisteningin the hot sunlightwe dipped them in sugarlooking at each othernot hurrying the feastfor one to comethe empty plates laid on the stone togetherwith the two forks crossedand I bent towards yousweet in that airin my armsabandoned like a childfrom your eager mouththe taste of strawberriesin my memorylean back againlet me love youlet the sun beaton our forgetfulnessone hour of allthe heat intenseand summer lightningon the Kilpatrick hillslet the storm wash the plates"
Author: Edwin Morgan

2. "The woman came and took our empty plates, and as I passed mine over I saw him looking at my hands again.I said I'm sorry, I just. He said I know it's none of my business, but. I laid them out on the table.I said oh it's nothing, it's just a bit embarrassing.He looked at them, and he moved his fingers towards them and this time I didn't flinch or pull awaybut he didn't touch them. He said what's embarrassing, what happened?I said I broke some plates.I said actually I broke all my plates, I threw them into the sink when I should have been washing them up.I kept picking up the pieces and throwing them back in and it was only afterwards that I realised I'd cut myself I said. He looked at me and he didn't ask me why I'd done it. I said it had been raining a lot that day, I lost my temper."
Author: Jon McGregor

3. "I'm hungry," Jason grumbled as he stared at the empty plates on his smallcoffee table.Brad groaned, "You practically ate both plates of cookies. How in the hell areyou hungry?"Jason shrugged leaning back in his chair to watch the game. "I just am.Leave me the hell alone I'm a growing boy, damn it!""Yeah, a growing thirty-one year old boy," Brad mumbled."I'm still growing damn it so shut the hell up and feed me!""Order something and stop bitching!" Brad snapped."You order something. I'm too weak to move."
Author: R.L. Mathewson

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