Quote by Peter Godfrey-Smith

“The bliss of stroking an octopus’s head is difficult to convey to most people, even to animal lovers.”

— Sy Montgomery

“I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of…

— Christina Lauren

“You're like an octopus then? Your skin can like really actually change like--like an octopus, like a cuttle fish, like all those things I've…

— Rachel Saylor

“I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. Adapted to freezing deep-ocean temperatures, I’d flop around down there at peace. The big concerns of my…

— Ned Vizzini

“What I mean to say is probably something like this: any single human being, no matter what kind of person he or she may…

— Haruki Murakami

“If guilt was an animal then it would be an octopus. All slimy and wriggly with hundreds of arms that wrap around your insides…

— Annabel Pitcher

“octopuses, far more than rats and pigeons, have their own ideas:”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“i'm a creature of fine sensations”

— Mary Shelley

“if some octopus moved in next door, I would feel hostile superiority because I have a spine and it didn’t, but that animosity might…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of…

— Ben Lerner

“In the cab going downtown, Doug believed he now understood the sensations felt by a person slowly sinking into the grasp of an octopus.…

— Donald E. Westlake

“I felt like the ocean. I felt like my insides were spread out so far and wide and there were so many things inside…

— Anna Akana