“I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.”
Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever
Source: Darkfever
“Urban folk, dealing as they do in ideas and abstractions, become conditioned to unreality. Then, wherever the fabric of civilization breaks, these people are as helpless as fish out of water.”
— Jack Vance, book The Gray Prince
Source: The Gray Prince (1975 [serialized 1974]), Chapter 4 (p. 49)
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