“A turtle should take fright at the sound of a boiling pot.”
“But... you're still getting married?" Grover sounded hurt. "Who's the bride?" Ploypemus looked toward the boiling pot. Clarisse made a strangled sound. "Oh, no! You can't be serious. I'm not-”
“A watched pot never boils.... but it does develop paranoia”
“And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”
“If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.”
“Roscoe and his friends are studying the heat of the fire and the level of oil in the pot with the attitude men take on occasions like this, feeling the weight of their supervisory powers. Sugar smiles. A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once.”