Quotes / Sapient Cetaceans

Intellectuals became the whale men, who kept their faces but lost their bodies for the streamlined shape of cetaceans. Their sentience blended with the intelligence already inhabiting these massive, blubbery forms. They indulged in abstract philosophy as they swam through the ocean depths in a silence created by the first absence of shipping lanes in five hundred thousand years.

—How The World Became Quiet, by Rachel Swirsky

Space Dolphins are a mysterious species of celestial cetaceans who inhabit the vacuum of space.

— Blurb for the eponymous Injustice: Gods Among Us toy

Much more than when he was a goose or a fox or a polar bear, Quentin felt like himself as a whale. He had a big fat brain that was capable of running most of his personality software at the same speed he was used to. But he wasn't the same Quentin, not exactly. Whale-Quentin was a calm, wise, contented Quentin. He was colossal, planetary, moving through the blue gloom unthreatened by anything and requiring nothing more than air through his blowhole and krill through his mouth.

—The Magician's Land