Nothing Tastes as Good Quotes

“In a house where food was love but eating was shameful, family meals were both a relief and a curse, a volatile push-and-pull of comfort and fear.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“but he didn’t want to be supported by fat people and the average-bodied White women who shouldered their way in; he wanted to be supported by the medical community who never stopped making him feel like he was on the brink of death and bringing society down with him.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“But the sick feeling tugging down on his heart, that was real. The never-ending humiliation and degradation, that was real. The feeling of being trapped inside his own body, inside his own life: that was as real as it fucking came.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“...but the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. Then shall the lambs feed after their manner and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“Maybe the drug was turning him into a monster, but how could he be expected to give it up when for the first time people were treating him like a human being.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“A middle-aged woman reported side effects of persistent and extreme hunger, regular bouts of dissociative amnesia, and what the author describes simply as unnatural cravings.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“Daring to be a fat person in the world is a never-ending saga of degradation.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“A misbehaved boy was better than a fat one.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“In a house where food was love but eating was shameful, family meals were both a relief and a curse, a volatile push and pull of comfort and fear.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“Health”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“We’re a publicly traded company founded in 2011 focused on innovating solutions to overweight and obesity.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“Aaron used his Thunderbolt. It was super-effective.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“Hi—my name’s Emmett. Not participant number 82941. Because I am a human boy”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“Because fat isn’t something you wear”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good