“…the Dulcibella had begun to move in her sleep, as it were, rolling drowsily to some faint send of the sea, with an occasional short jump, like the start of an uneasy dreamer.”

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”

“If there was anything her short life had taught her, it was that a person must be tough. Otherwise, you were had.”

“Although some dinosaurs may have spent some time feeding in the water like moose or fishing cats, at most a few became strongly amphibious in the manner of hippos, much less marine as per seals and whales. The only strongly aquatic dinosaurs are some birds. The occasional statement that there were marine dinosaurs is therefore incorrect - these creatures of Mesozoic seas were various forms of reptiles that had evolved over the eons.”

“The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.”

“A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping,
For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.”

“We flow, we descend, we turn... and the eternal dreamer
Moves among us like light, like evening air...”

“Being chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee is like jumping off a cliff. The thrill is very short.”

“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.”

“If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building.”