Perch Quotes

“Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Can we share my eyes
so you can see what I see?
Can we share my ears
so you can hear what I hear?
Can you perch on my shoulders
so you can go where I go?
Always in my heart,
I don’t experience anything separate from you.
This shared wonderment becomes doubled.
This shared love becomes infinite.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Go perch on a chimney.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“In Japan, fish like Nile perch and tilapia used to be sold a lot under false labels: Nile perch was passed off as Japanese sea bass and tilapia as red snapper. Even though they’d clearly taste better when cooked in recipes designed specifically to bring out their unique qualities, rather than those modeled on the qualities of a different fish! The Japanese have a resistance to freshwater fish, in general. Maybe it’s because people automatically associate them with koi carp and goldfish? But it just goes to show that in Japan, the name is more important than the taste.”
― Polly Barton, Hooked

“It wasn't the Nile perch's fault: it had merely been frantically defending its own territory. The tragedy had taken place because the fish had been introduced into a lake that wasn't its natural habitat.”
― Polly Barton, Hooked

“As she was here doing this, the Nile perches were busy evolving. They would devour their friends, if that was what it took to keep themselves alive. A clear mental image now took hold of Eriko and wouldn't let go: a huge Nile perch, dozens of meters in length, swimming leisurely around a Lake Victoria that now contained no other creatures, its silver scales glistening. Just one mammoth fish. And yet, the Nile perch wasn't lonely. It wasn't lonely because it contained inside that enormous body the souls of the hundreds of thousands of creatures it had eaten.”
― Polly Barton, Hooked

“In the tank, the two Nile perch crossed paths. Without looking at the other, they slid past each other with awe-inspiring grace, at a distance of just a few millimeters. They, too, had their unspoken rules of engagement.
It seemed to her that the Nile perch were far more gifted at maintaining a comfortable relationship with each other than she and Shōko were.”
― Polly Barton, Hooked