Quote by John Steinbeck

“Billy was a hardscrabble country boy, maybe forty years old, lean and furtive, like a fox and a squirrel had a kid, and spent…

— Lee Child

“who'd found a whole bed of mice.”

— Carolyn Brown

“But he could never bear mice.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Nobody tried to follow me when I left the coffeehouse at ten, or at least nobody but some of the overweight so-called wildlife that…

— Robin McKinley

“I said, smiling very wide and droogie: ‘Well, if it isn’t fat stinking billygoat Billyboy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of…

— Anthony Burgess

“Don’t chirrup so loud, Donald,” Janet said. “When you come to cheer an ill person up you don’t cheer him up at the top…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“And I wonder if any of the road-kill creatures actually wanted to die and threw themselves beneath the speeding wheels. A lethargic swallow who…

— Sara Baume

“Well, I’m more lopsided than a one-legged badger,” mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his careful stalking to stagger comically across the clearing. “I think…

— Erin Hunter

“The cloth overlay of Billy’s cart clucks, and a brown chicken pokes her head out from under the covering, stepping out of the basket…

— Kendare Blake

“But he might have had a bang on the head!" said Joan. "Poor little boy, he thinks he was a rat!" "Hmm," said the…

— Philip Pullman

“When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with a shrill…

— Franz Kafka

“The Mouse kept its eyes closed to the truth and did not appreciate the world he lived in. But what one wants most, is…

— Ansul Noor