Salt Quotes

“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.


PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand,
Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac tree
From which a small wood-owl calls.”
― Johannes Bobrowski

“Eat, Your Highness. "
"Everything tastes like doom, " he whispered.
"Then add salt.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”
― Rebecca West, The Harsh Voice

“I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert.”
― Pablo Neruda

“All worries are less with wine.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things.

Love is the same way.

Use it to "season" people.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“The queen smiled as she lay her head upon the pillow. When I kissed her cheek, I could taste the salt of her tears.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Don't be a pepper on the eyes of people; Rather be the salt on their tongue and make a difference that influences their sense of belonging to the earth.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century”
― Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

“Avoid those people who are during injuries put salt on your wound instead of treatment, they are actually dangerous enemies.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Pearl saltbush
Meaning: My hidden worth
Maireana sedifolia | South Australia and Northern Territory

Common in deserts and salty environments, this low shrub creates a fascinating ecosystem of almost hidden treasures: geckoes, fairy wrens, fungi and lichen colonies. Drought-tolerant, with silvery grey evergreen foliage that forms a dense groundcover that is fire-retardant.”
― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

“The salt and the sea and the breeze tugged on me, sang to me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Baking with a salt crust!
Salt is mixed with egg whites and then spread over the top of the dish to form a thick crust.
This ensures no moisture escapes during baking, keeping the goodness of the ingredients concentrated inside.
It's said that centuries ago, when Shogun Hideyoshi Toyotomi was deployed on maneuvers, he'd cover his fish in a salt crust to prevent it from rotting.
Because of the insulating wall of salt, the dish is heated gently and evenly while in the oven...
... its juiciness and deliciousness slowly growing within its protective shell.
The dish is considered complete...
... when you crack open the now golden-brown salt crust.”
― Yūto Tsukuda, 食戟のソーマ 30 [Shokugeki no Souma 30]

“I reached inside the bag. It was a small jar of grayish-red crystals. "Is this..."
"I had a friend pick it up for me in New York."
"Come in. I want to take a closer look at this stuff."
I made a beeline for the kitchen, and Nico followed behind. Under the bright kitchen lights, I examined the contents of the jar. Inside there was Amethyst Bamboo Salt, one of the rarest, most expensive salts in the world. The crystals were shaped irregularly and smelled both sweet and smoky, like a campfire for s'mores.”
― Hillary Manton Lodge, A Table by the Window

“I looked expectantly to the window but there were no plates lined up. Instead Scott, the young, tattooed sous chef, passed me a sliver of tomato. The insides were tie-dyed pink and red.
"A Marvel-Striped from Blooming Hills Farm," he said, as if I had asked him a question.
I cupped it while it dripped. He pinched up flakes of sea salt from a plastic tub and flicked it on the slice.
"When they're like this don't fuck with them. Just a little salt."
"Wow," I said. And I meant it. I had never thought of a tomato as a fruit----the ones I had known were mostly white in the center and rock hard. But this was so luscious, so tart I thought it victorious. So----some tomatoes tasted like water, and some tasted like summer lightning.”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“A pint of salt on grain of truth, a ton of salt on holy books.”
― Florin-Marian Hera, The Prairie of Hounds: Two short-stories intertwined in mist and darkness.

“Gretchen walked by and saw Kendall and another waitress dipping fries in Armando's garlic aioli and shoveling them into their mouths. This was the number-one hangover food for the staff at Sullivan's. The salt fixed everything.”
― Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

“The words of an experienced man is like a salt that preserves.”
― Isaac A. Yowetu

“The salt in the sea is the same as the salt in our blood”
― William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

“Does sodium LASER light interact with salt in the human body?”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“It’s a Kalahari diamond,” he said. “I picked a square cut because it looks like a crystal of salt.”
Margot reached across the table and touched two fingers to his lips. “It’s the prettiest thing I ever saw.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“A delicious meal needs pepper and salt, but if they dominate, the meal is ruined.”
― Shree Shambav, Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories

“This is the skin and fat of the salmon's stomach!"
"The skin is crisp, and when you bite on it the sweet fat comes seeping out..."
"A long time ago, there was a lord of a large clan in the Hokuriku area who just loved to eat salmon.
That lord especially liked to eat salmon skin, but salmon skin is very thin. Even if you had all the skin of a salmon, it still didn't satisfy him.
So one day he said, if there was a salmon with a skin that was one foot thick, he'd be willing to exchange it with ten square miles of land...
That is how good the skin of a salmon is. And the meat of a salmon with a lot of fat in it is exceptionally good too. This dish has grilled just those two best parts of it.
First, you cut off the dark meat from the belly meat. Then you sprinkle salt onto the skin and the meat and refrigerate for two to three hours. After that, you grill it over charcoal.
Being careful not to tear the skin, you roll the skin around the belly meat and pin it with a toothpick; this one is the salted one.
On the other hand, this one hasn't been salted; instead, it's been marinated in soy sauce and sake overnight."
"Hmm... he used the best part of a salmon and grilled it with salt or with teriyaki sauce."
"You can't really call this a proper dish at first glance, but its flavor is definitely supreme!”
― Tetsu Kariya, Fish, Sushi and Sashimi

“My wife was of salt. Grains of salt, ready to dissolve. Salt always has a kind of coercion. There's something in its flavor that tastes like distress...”
― Najwa Barakat, Mister N

“I had a great aunt, Leona, who would sit and eat raw onions with me like apples as a kid. She would pour salt on the table cloth, dip it in and take a bite. What a genius.”
― Aesop Rock

“It was a quote by Isak Dinesen. 'The cure for anything is salt water--sweat, tears, or the sea.”
― Marc Cameron, Open Carry

“The friend who puts salt on your wounds when you are injured was originally a silent enemy.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih