“What Roop says is correct. That thermometer hasn’t worked in years.” Sanger paused, looking around for Hansom before continuing.
Not seeing the goatfish, he proceeded confidently, “Actually, I daresay my own studies have found the instrument to be so imprecise that it is my professional opinion that the temperature is just as likely to be going down as to be going up!”
Source: FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
“Oh my God!” exclaimed Jessie the turtle, who alone immediately saw what the good doctor would say next.
“And I am sad to say, my friends," concluded Doc Hansom the goatfish, "if the caulking seal breaks before the professor returns, the aquarium will likely drain and we will all die.”
Source: FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
“It may be," Doc Hansom the goatfish concluded, "that it is already too late.”
Source: FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
“Overhead, raindrops land on the skylight, backlit by glare from the security light at the old ferry dock next door. Silver droplets race down the glass, shimmering ribbons under the fogbound sky. It’s been a dreadful June, as everyone keeps saying. The gray weather doesn’t bother Tova”
Source: Remarkably Bright Creatures
“There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.”
Source: Blow-Up and Other Stories
“I’m just going to sit here. With my back turned. And my ears flat. Aggressively not caring.”
Source: Everything's Coming Up Beatrix!: A Breaking Cat News Adventure
“Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.”
“Everyone deserved to live freely and in honor of themselves. A basic right should not be a luxury.”
Source: Escaping from Houdini
“Rebellions are built on hope.”
Source: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
“Emon braced himself, but he didn't despair. He was a rebel, and that mean that he was more than his weapon, his uniform, or his rank. He was an idea and ideas couldn't be snuffed out, not even on the desolate, frozen plains of Hoth.”
Source: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back