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Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out.
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable.
― Khang Kijarro Nguyen



Her freckles looked as if someone had blown cinnamon across her nose and high cheekbones.
― Jo Ann Brown, An Amish Match

the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange…The spice extends life… expands consciousness… gives them the ability to fold space…that is, travel to any part of the universe without moving.
― Frank Herbert
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