a low simmer QUOTES

1 " Southern gentleman,” he said aside to him in Arabic. “Do you wish for me to continue this for you?”
Caine’s temper shifted to a low simmer in his chest. “Your way takes too long.”
“Ma’aleyk, and your way hurts my ears,” he argued. "

― V.S. Carnes

2 " My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition. "

― Michael Pollan , Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation