Vivarium Quotes

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.

I was a fake girlfriend, not a real one. But still, as we paused in the middle of the butterfly vivarium to marvel at a lacy scrap of bright blue that fluttered to rest on Seth's shoulder, our hands grazing each other with the movement, I figured that to the people around us we looked pretty real.

It was only the second time they had made love at her place. Andrew had identified the hibiscus flower in her mystery box and requested the site of their lovemaking. Ever since she’d told him about her father’s reptile room, he’d wanted to do her there. He’d imagined that fornicating in the middle of a room walled with vivariums full of lizards and snakes with phallic bodies and flickering tongues would be highly arousing,

They sat in the spacious living room, reached by a series of steps that plunged the area below ground level. A glass roof opened onto a limpid, deep blue sky. It reminded Lucie of a kind of giant vivarium. Luc Szpilman uncapped a beer; his interlocutor opted for water. Somewhere in the house someone was playing a musical instrument. The notes danced, light and mesmerizing.