Family Quote by Darren Shan

“There could be no snakes in Quintana Roo's garden. Only later did I see that I had been raising her as a doll.”

— Joan Didion

“She looked like a dead Teletubby.”

— Babe Walker

“Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the…

— George Orwell

“It was his mistake in thinking that a snake would choose to be anything but a snake.”

— Neal Shusterman

“... his skin almost invisible to Baru in that it was so very Taranoki (a little pale, perhaps, like someone who shut himself up…

— Seth Dickinson

“Mace watched his beautiful sister. She took after their mother. He took after his father. And they got along about as well as that…

— Shelly Laurenston

“Trei did not stay to look out at the city, but went to find his cousin. He went smiling, and with a lightness to…

— Rachel Neumeier

“Live snakes? ' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-' 'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up.”

— Scott Lynch

“He was looking me over in that weird, intense way he had, like I was a rare species of beetle and he was a…

— Eli Easton

“He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent. I don't care. I run into his arms.”

— Holly Black

“Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten.”

— Kami Garcia

“One of Zaphod's heads looked away. The other turned round to see what the first was looking at, but it wasn't looking at anything…

— Douglas Adams