Mouth Working Quote by John Banville Download Open image ““..., her mouth working mutely like the valve of an undersea creature”” — John Banville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mouth Working Mutely Mutely Like Undersea Creature Working Mutely
“She felt it all right at the back of her throat, like a bomb – or a tiger – sitting on the base of… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“If you don’t want my tongue in your mouth, you better say so fast.” Her eyes had only the time to widen before my… — Max Monroe Copy Share Image
“She grew silent, waded in the shallows, heard the sigh and suck of the water, knew the terrible emptiness of her open hands.” — Wendy Wallace Copy Share Image
“It began with the twitch of her lower lip as it took on a life of its own, rippling outward to the corners of… — Sophie Barnes Copy Share Image
“She sits in a tub full to the brim, her chin submerged, her knees bent and revealed. She feels the water drift as her… — B. E. Hewson Copy Share Image
“She wanted to buckle, lie on her side and gasp like an eviscerated fish. She held her breath against it, but her mouth parted.… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't know which way to go.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And then she fell, from standing, foot-fins together, straight into the wavelets, where she was now seal, and she flung herself down toward the… — Margo Lanagan Copy Share Image
“She lets out a strangled curse and it takes everything in me not to shout with her as I get my first taste of… — Tara Sivec Copy Share Image
“He thrashed like a freshly caught fish as the sucking sounds of draining water gurgled from the pooling blood in his mouth.” — Michiko Katsu Copy Share Image
“Her ears blocked out all sound apart from the bubbles that appeared all around her and she was once again amazed at the sight… — Connor Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“when she was finally done, she was close to tears and she hated herself more. Dragging oxygen into her sob-clogged throat, she turned to… — Marian Tee Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Her own mother had died when Anna was twelve and since then father and daughter had faced the world like a pair of nineteenth-century… — John Banville Copy Share Image
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Yet even without saying, each knew what the other was thinking, and, more acutely, what the other was feeling -- this is a further… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“I have ever had the conviction, resistant to all rational considerations, that at some unspecified future moment the continuous rehearsal which is my life,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.” — John Banville Copy Share Image
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.” — John Banville Copy Share Image
