Fiction Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

— William Jennings Bryan

“I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written…

— Thomas Paine

“(Because Jonah’s real story is the one never told: never was he as stupendously happy as during those three days and three nights of…

— Hélène Cixous

“I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“... the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.”

— Kate Atkinson

“Doctors described Jonah as having poor impulse control, which basically meant that Jonah's entire world was a series of decisions that balanced precariously on…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“...a man who invented his life story day after day.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The life of a whale is short on land.”

— Nicolas Massimi

“Jonah's breath came fast and shallow. I reached for his hand. He turned his face to me, his eyes wide with panic. Two frozen…

— Natalie Standiford

“Too many words made Jonah feel like blackbirds were flying at his face, too fast and too many for him to catch. Made him…

— Eliza Maxwell

“While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if I, who…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or…

— Kurt Vonnegut