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The Fish That Climbed a Tree QUOTES

The Fish That Climbed a Tree QUOTES

1 " For anyone with a library in their head and love in their heart, "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

2 " Of course God exists. But God is no more a man than you are a snowflake. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

3 " I am nothing if not misanthropic," declared Sebastian.
"I think you mean philanthropic," said Henry.
"God, you are so perdantic."
"That would be pedantic."
"See! You're even perdantic about the word perdantic. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

4 " Awash with trepidation, he was suddenly on the mattress, lured like an errant sailor onto a siren’s rocky shore. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

5 " The train’s doors closed with a matron’s shush. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

6 " The snow fell as softly as a poet’s tears. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

7 " Faith is not like a raincoat, only to be worn on drizzly days. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

8 " Ooh! Oo-wooh!' groaned Henry, looking up to see that even Albert Einstein was willing him on. Amber grasped at lumps of his flesh and felt as if she were steering a rickety bus on a bumpy goat track. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

9 " Pah! I wave my cuff at hindsight as if it were a bothersome fly. Life can only be lived forwards, Ulysses. All that matters is what you do now. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

10 " Poppy, a chronic insomniac in her first life, since found that sleep arrived easily, washing over her in a soporific tide that carried with it the flotsam of ambrosial dreams. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

11 " Mustering the figurative glint of light on Chekhov's broken glass, he gazed into the half-remembered irises of Florence's eyes and imagined her fingers, soft and delicate, against his cheek. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

12 " The oak trees had shed their leaves, revealing the inky thumbprints of crows' nests in the crackle glaze of dark branches. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

13 " Ulysses found himself hopelessly adrift within the confines of a yew-hedge maze, the leaf tips of which were lit by a Communion-wafer moon that rested on the black tongue of night. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

14 " ...he slipped into the hallway with a second-hand paperback copy of 'The Mote in God's Eye' under one arm, intending to read it in a quiet corner of Misto's coffee shop. He deemed the book to have previously been read on a sultry tropical beach, given that its yellowed pages were as corrugated as a ploughed field. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

15 " The Earth has music for those who listen." - Kevin Ansbro "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

16 " Henry was inclined to drift towards books as keenly as a duck paddles for bread crusts. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree

17 " The train's doors closed with a matron's shush. "

― Kevin Ansbro , The Fish That Climbed a Tree