Animals Quote by Michael Buckley

“A creature--a frightfully, awful creature--was mere feet from her. Its eyes were enormous, the size of goose eggs and milky white. Its gray, slippery…

— M.L. LeGette

“this creature moved on all fours. Long, pointed ears lay flat against the monster's head. The long, tapered snout was wrinkled into a snarl,…

— Graeme Reynolds

“I raised the hand to my head and felt the slick skin of a leech. The creature, whose weight I had mistaken for water,…

— Brad Magnarella

“Found in a small stone cave bitten from the roadside, stitchless save for his great outsized boots and a plague of flies, fat on…

— Nick Cave

FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

— Ambrose Bierce

“Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, dragging his loathsome length along my bosom: Sometimes…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“This curious little animal was of a soft, dark brown color, the fur being of a lighter shade under the body; its feet were…

— Johann David Wyss

“Long legs and longer arms, each tipped with a row of black talons. Sinewy. Wiry. And above all, humanoid, its skin in the sunlight…

— Blake Crouch

“A warm flow of pain was gradually replacing the ice and wood of the anaesthetic in his thawing, still half-dead, abominably martyred mouth. After…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Well, first of all,” Langdon said, “Edmond inscribed this piece in clay as an homage to mankind’s earliest written language, cuneiform.” The woman blinked,…

— Dan Brown

“About midnight excited hails were heard from a boat about a couple of miles out at sea to the southeast of Sidmouth, and a…

— H.G. Wells

“I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his…

— Elizabeth Bishop