#fins

Quince reaches me, and instead of wrapping me in a hug like I expect, he reaches for my hair. I try to swim back, away from the near-desperate look in his eyes, afraid that he’s going to fail the test. He tugs something from my hair. I look down and see a Padina antillarum—a beautiful little seaweed shaped like ginkgo leaves—in his hand. And it’s glowing. “You,” he says with an explosive grin. “You are the sixteenth object. ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#just-for-fins #tera-lynn-childs #beauty

Stupid male ego. ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#funny #stupid-male-ego #tera-lynn-childs #forgiveness

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#favorite #muffins

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins. ↗

— Dave Barry

#fins #fish #i #kind #only

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#catching #chocolate #cold #drowning #dry

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#aquatic #bizarre #creatures #fins #fish

I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here. ↗

— Aaron Funk

#certainly #here #i #i believe #i believe the