How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
We could try and try and try to get enough of each other but it was like some witch's curse and the more we tried to stop being hungry the more starving we got. (1.11.11)
Again with the lack of agency. Daisy and Edmond aren't choosing this; they're cursed. The parallel to hunger also sort of stops working here because the more they try to satiate the urges they feel, the more they want each other. Not surprising, of course, because when did acting on such feelings ever make them go away?
Quote #8
It was the first time in as long as I could remember that hunger wasn't a punishment or a crime or a weapon or a mode of self-destruction.
It was a way of being in love. (1.11.12-13)
Now, correct us if we're wrong here, but doesn't everything that Daisy's been describing sound a lot more like lust than love? It's interesting that she chooses to describe it as love instead, and makes us wonder if she's ascribing emotions to their relationship that she may not even feel yet.
Quote #9
Sometimes I felt like I was being consumed from within like a person with one of those freak diseases where you digest your own stomach. (1.11.14)
Um, gross. So let's get this straight: Now we're off the roller coaster and done with the witch's curse, but what's happening is a disease. Daisy's inability to take ownership is truly astounding. Also we're still a little puzzled about the analogy between lust and consuming your own stomach.