Quotes About Bog

I have come to think of our lives as the colors of that place- hers a piece of bog cotton, mine as black as the water found when men slash too deep in the soil with a shovel.

The fear, the great cold fear of the base-born, everything human and swarming. Like a great bog humanity swamped her, and she sank in, weak at the knees, filled with repulsion and fear of every person she met.

So many different forms of the beast in one place. As if you could just sprinkle some bog water on an ancient stone and some bizarre form of life might sprout there, uproot itself, and bound after a rabbit. Suddenly the luminous fog seemed alive with wet nostrils and eyes.

I thought you said you wre bringing a dead body in for examination. Didn't you think to check he actually was dead first?' Gwen knew he was being sarcastic, but the tone still stung. 'Be fair, Jack,' said Owen from the doorway.'Y'know the guy had done a lot to make himself look dead: lain in a bog for forty years, decayed himself, let the worms in, shrivelled up a bit, stopped breathing, no circulation, all major organs dried up and inactive. Could've fooled anyone.

The Russian people were left floundering in the bog. Their worst misfortune was his birth: their next worst—his death.

Suddenly Bill Graham stuck his head round the door and said, "The police are here!" We all panicked and threw our dope in the bog. Then Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland walked in.

Ianto lying on his back in the bog. Snake-silent and lizard-still.