Mischief Quote by William Trevor

“Her head was perfectly still, eyes unblinking. He imagined her ego swimming up behind them, to peer at him suspiciously, something eel-like, larval, transparently…

— William Gibson

“Oh, dear. Oh, gracious, oh, ye gods and little fishes. What on earth could he be thinking?”

— Grace Burrowes

“She didn’t care if eel was good for you, as Athena had pointed out.  It was eel.  That was plenty of reason not to…

— Kris Langman

“Um.” Her jaw bobbed like a fish out of water for a second before her brain engaged. “What are you doing here?” His face…

— Lisa Kessler

“Interesting. Claws and teeth and ferocity mixed with the subtlety to manipulate creatures larger than itself. A worthy creature.”

— K.A. Applegate

“He walked noisily, like a fish.”

— Jules Renard

“Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is,…

— Ernest Hemingway

“No matter how many times I tell him I can't see into the water yet, he insists I'm just trying to look at his…

— Anna Banks

“In the strangeness of the brightening day it seemed presumptuous that with this feeble, broken instrument of his mind he had ever tried to…

— Fitzgerald

“He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish.”

— R. Scott Bakker

“When he came to, the eels were still being removed from him and Anvar was congratulating one of the rivermen. The man had smashed…

— Ian Livingstone