Her lips, which taste still lingered on his mouth. By his normal standards, it was again a fleeting, chaste kiss. But it had struck him with the power of a thousand lightnings. Heâd tasted many a womanâs lips. And for longer periods of time. But they all paled in comparison with her lips. It was like heâd been feasting on sand for the longest time. Suddenly now, he had a taste of a sprinkling of sugar and realized it was what he had been missing, starving, craving for so long. Now, all he could think of was sand and sugar.