"Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie."
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"Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes."
"[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of timber are here on the Pacific slope. We are in the center of the best of them. Probably nowhere on earth does there exist a forest to compare in continuous grandeur and unqualified beauty with the Redwoods that are found along the Eel River and to the north."
"They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics."
"Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell"
"I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan."
"I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts."
"If God did not exist, he would have to be invented."
"I have a name,” I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. “Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,” he said, trying it out in different ways. “No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!” he said in a high falsetto. “It’s Rachel! Run! Hide!"