“(Even for adults, seeing someone’s lips as he speaks is the equivalent of a 20-decibel increase in volume.)”
“Asking about someone’s animal is the shifter equivalent of pulling a ruler and asking a guy to whip it out.”
“I’ll make a soup out of sound, and I’ll call it “Decibels.” You can get a cup or a bowl, a small or a large, and they’ll both have the same volume.”
“Every thirty-one hundred years a volume of water equivalent to all the oceans passed through the atmosphere.”
“The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument.”
“Ah, those eyes," he said. "They can speak volumes, but sometimes even I cannot translate the language. And we never did invent enough signs for deeper thoughts and feelings.”