overflowing Quotes

“Her anger had begun with the failure of the mountain, but had grown so great that it no longer needed reasons to overspill. (‘She is not angry with you,’ their father used to whisper to Maro and Inez last thing at night. But it was sometimes hard to believe.)

“Mr. Archimedes’ bath always overflowed. And Mr. Archimedes always had to clean up the mess.”

“We make the water go up. There are just too many of us in the bath, that’s all!”