Language Quote by Kate DiCamillo

“There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. For instance, who would ever think you would shout, “You’re…

— Kate DiCamillo

“You look like something the cat coughed up, dragged through dirt, ate, and coughed up again.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“I watched that plant in the office every day. Watered it; misted it. I loved thinking about it like G.T. said, but part of…

— Joan Bauer

“So, you don’t care for squirrels, I take it.” He flashed his straight white teeth when he laughed again. “Oh no, she doesn’t.” Kitty…

— Amber Lynn Perry

“Look, rodent.” At least she could still talk.. “Either chop off my ears so I’m not subjected to your verbal projectiles or clench your…

— Auden Johnson

“One morning she happened upon a bit of cloth decorated with pictures of little red squirrels carrying small, brown,nutsacks,and she nearly fainted away.”

— Cynthia Rylant

“I stare past her at the inspirational kitten posters. There's one of a soaking-wet kitten climbing out of a toilet with the caption "it…

— Robin Stevenson

“A voice spoke. It sounded like a lion would speak, if it could talk. I WARNED YOU! In a way that would probably have…

— Emma L. Adams

“Mentally, my brain was hopping as wildly as a sugared-up squirrel,”

— Donna White Glaser

“Imagine this coming down,” I say out loud. I believe it’s the mammal in me that has this thought, the mammal that can remember…

— Hugh Howey

“Another pet catastrophe: Mrs. Schreuder accidentally vacuumed up her canary while she was cleaning its cage.”

— Hendrik Groen

“I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and…

— Rebecca Solnit