“A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.”
“Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.”
“You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.”
“If you are squeamishDon't prod thebeach rubble.”
“There is a fullness of time for things. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet. When to let things take their course.”
“There's a fullness of time for things, Lily. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.”