Creatures Quote by Mercedes Lackey

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail…

— George Orwell

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and…

— Oscar Wilde

He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the…

— Clifford D. Simak

“Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any…

— Ray Bradbury

“A trap, like a good story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them until the prey is snared.”

— E.J. Patten

“All around him, for as far as he could see, lay a rough land strewn with rocks, with not a drop of water, nor…

— Haruki Murakami

“The dark monsters out there would suck me up when night came on, and they would carry me far across the sea and through…

— Knut Hamsun

“A good trap, like a good story, has to arise naturally from the environment. It has to be seamless. If the prey suspects what’s…

— E.J. Patten

“(...) that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.”

— Charlaine Harris

“So why had he come? He'd said he'd had no choice, but for centuries men had chopped off their own limbs, faked insanity, gone…

— Dominique Wilson

“That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realising that it is simply a pretty cover for…

— Neil Gaiman