Creature Quotes

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Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by.… — Maeve Brennan
I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me. — A. S. Byatt
I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. — Shirley Jackson
And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fatherâ€™s silence is not merely the absence of sound. Itâ€™s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small… — Franny Billingsley
I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or… — Jim Butcher
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray… — Charles Dickens
I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from… — George MacDonald
We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we… — Barbara Kingsolver
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death… — Ann Aguirre
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would… — Jane Austen
It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be… — Rachel Caine
I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me. — Elizabeth Gaskell
What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love… — Anna Godbersen
I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in… — Fernando Pessoa
He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on… — Thomas Hardy
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and… — Graham Greene
Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being… — Michael Moorcock
Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark) — George R. R. Martin
I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love… — Margaret Atwood

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