“No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana...”

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”

“Lady Ponsonby was right. The forbidden fruit isn't shaped like an apple. It's shaped like a banana.”

“I’d put a banana on my tray, too. That, at least, didn’tremind me of anything trying to kill me. Could you kill someone with a banana? It didn’t seempossible. Maybe a possessed banana. I’d seen possessed pets before, but not possessed fruit. ButI’ll bet it’s out there somewhere.”

“His skin was blotched as a dying banana.”

“It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not like the fish on the quay, fresh caught, lying flipping and flopping, death on a simmer. This was a fierce, boiling death. She died thrashing blindly in a slick of gore, full of pain and fury, gnashing her jaws, beating her tail, spewing lumps of slime and half-digested fish that fell stinking about us. It was vile. So much strength dies slowly.”