Contemporary Quote by Heidi R. Kling

“She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.”

— Robert Goolrick

“Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders.”

— Kate Carlisle

“you know, all spider-like and mother fucking huge and hairy, he made up for with how he behaved and how he treated me.”

— Mark Alders

“Just because he's a spider doesn't mean he deserves any less concern!”

— Rachel Caine

“But a spider was, after all, only a spider. Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing…

— Stephen King

“She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and a napkin.…

— Rudy Francisco

“Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.”

— Michael Monroe

“First, they needed to destroy the web. Then the spider would be powerless.”

— Kiersten White

“She was afraid, too, frightened of what she found herself becoming. She felt that she was transforming into a malevolent black spider, hunched back…

— Laura Kinsale

“But I had never seen a spider like this one. It was purple. And then it made a hissing noise akin to a cat…

— Rebecca Royce

“The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it.”

— Louise Bourgeois

“He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourslef to crush in your own hand disgusts you.”

— Patrick Süskind