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Quotes About Roiling

The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.
~ David Joy
Even the sky a hybrid — here clean and black and starred, there roiling with a brusque signature of cloud or piled in strata like folded linen or the interior of rock.
~ Stanley Elkin
The cycle repeated itself at inconsistent intervals, creating invisible eddies that brushed against him like fountains of roiling water.
~ Christopher Paolini
The clouds were as yellow as sulfur and roiling in thick curds all the way to the horizon, as though we were trapped beneath an ocean that was sliding over the edges of the earth.
~ James Lee Burke
I stared at the symbol, the chimera, the bile roiling in my gut. "Not this time." "I haven't run with it," Cindy said. "But it's out there. Everybody thinks these murders are connected. This symbol is the key, right? Let me give you a second definition I found: 'a grotesque product of the imagination.' That fits, right?
~ James Patterson
We were a roiling mass of opinion, most of it mean. Here we sat at civilization's technological peak, and what we chose to do on that shining pinnacle was hate each other's guts.
~ Lydia Millet