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“I knew that the swallower was just a little knot of matter, squashed so tight that even its own light couldn’t break free of…

— Alastair Reynolds

“I had never been able to admit to myself how happy Oliver had made me the day he’d swallowed my peach.”

— André Aciman

“It...whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by its bile…

— Kellie Elmore

“He tried not to think, not to understand: could there be any understanding of this? This had come, had crushed, and was roaring. If…

— Andrei Bely

“Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not…

— Markus Zusak

“I live well! I may have been swallowed, but I have no intention of being eaten.”

— Mac Barnett

“I swallowed my screams whole. They went down my throat as sharp-cornered and cold as ice cubes.”

— Scott Westerfeld

“You were a very confusing object for the Itineris to digest. So it held you for a bit. You’re quite fortunate it eventually decided…

— Rachel Hawkins

“I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one of me, you'll have to swallow the lot as well.”

— Salman Rushdie

“I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men…

— Libba Bray

“and the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight.”

— Mo Yan

“I wiped off my fingers, but it wasn't the mold or maggots making my stomach revolt... No, it was the knowledge that all around…

— Margaret Rogerson