Broccoli Quotes

“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, The Fault in Our Stars

“He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan. He could survive broccoli. Probably.”
― Shannon Stacey, Yours to Keep

“But they fight in the name of the creator."
"I don't care if they fight in the name of broccoli. The goal remains the same.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Taste of Darkness

“Nothing heals the soul like chocolate," she said. "I just love chocolate. It's God's apology for broccoli.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel

“I wanted to try dainty Italian fare, and bought spicy Bologna sausage, pink papery hams, hard white bread, and chalky cheeses. I also bought the makings of a Mackeroni Pie I had seen made at an inn, and a new sort of green stuff named brockerly that proved a great deal tastier than cabbage.”
― Martine Bailey, An Appetite for Violets

“Mama!' Rosie tugged on my shirt. 'This broccoli is tasty and wonderful'.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld

“She sighed hard and shook her head, realized she was still staring at the same recipe card in her hand. She propped it against the monitor and read again, Elegant French Pork and Beans, by Carmine Grosz of Huron, South Dakota. She scanned the recipe, which called for haricot beans- a not inelegant bean, Olivia thought. Two kinds of sausage, two cuts of pork. Leeks. Well. This looked like a midwesternized cassoulet- definitely better than the usual "Casserole Corner" fare, which was largely made up of recipes containing endless and minute variations on the same hot dishes, issue after issue. For a couple of years there, chicken and broccoli had been all the rage: Chicken Broccoli Divan, Chicken Broccoli 'Divine', Chicken Broccoli Supreme ("Them's fightin' words," Ruby had told Vivian). Chicken Broccoli Surprise, Chicken Broccoli 'Rice' Surprise (David: "Where's the surprise? You've just listed all the ingredients in the title"). Elegant Company Chicken-Broccoli Casserole. "Which is the inelegant part," Olivia had asked over the phone from college, because she was studying ambiguous reference in her Linguistic Description of Modern English class, "the company or the casserole?”
― Susan Gilbert-Collins, Starting from Scratch

“Weet je wat ik graag eet? Broccoli. Omdat het een rudimentair zenuwstelsel heeft.' Hij leunt een stukje naar voren. 'Het voelt pijn.”
― Auke Hulst, Slaap zacht, Johnny Idaho