Carved Quote by Dezső Kosztolányi

“He could see the inchworm in his mind even now, that snip of green elastic with it's tiny blunt legs, coiling and stretching its…

— Julie Orringer

“He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of…

— Alex Shakar

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

— Anonymous

“Death was a rodent that ate its way inch by inch through your entrails, chewed at your liver and stomach, severed tendon from organ,…

— James Lee Burke

“This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“One wood mouse can nibble a large hole.”

— Carol Kendall

“Covered in shaggy red fur, it looked a little like an orangutan except for its enormous hands and ghastly face.  The moment he met…

— Brian Harmon

“In Collegium it had been the fashion, while he had been resident there, to paint death as a grey-skinned, balding Beetle man in plain…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It consisted of…

— Victor Hugo

“Complete. What an awful word for an infected people, that final, animal stage that was the future of all of them. Chels swallowed, unsure…

— Daniel Ausema

“The worm does not his work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame.”

— Charles Dickens

“A grimy ghost hovered above a smiling scarecrow that looked puny next to an oversized bat being watched by a wicked witch who was…

— Kevin Purdy