“Snakes dislike surprises,' Rupert said. To Mrs. Pembroke he added, 'You frightened her. She attacked because she thought she was in danger.'… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Come here,” she says. “No, you come here.” “I said it first.” “Rock paper scissors.” “No. Because you’ll do nerdy calculations and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the… — Paul Monette Copy Share Image
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The next day she’d examined her red satin sandals and with a frown said, “I’m thinking about buying two snakes.” His are… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“The voices inside her head had awakened from their peace as they hissed in whisper through her ears. They slithered inside Sophia's… — Arti Manani Copy Share Image
Remember, it is not the snake bite that kills, but the venom which circulates afterwards that is fatal. Do not let the… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes… — Dominic Monaghan Copy Share Image
Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
It is genuinely very unconventional. I have not done anything like this before, and things couldn't have been as real as it… — Rahul Vaidya Copy Share Image
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
She's gone. Been gone for ages. They split up right after you left. That's why the grass out front started growing again."… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Devoutly the teachers point out huge fumigated domes; but beneath the statues there's no love, no love beneath the eyes set in… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
