Contemporary Quote by Phillipa Bornikova

“Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet.”

— Walter Jon Williams

“I think of animals in cages, pressed close against each other.”

— Will Christopher Baer

“I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I was a…

— Sarah J. Maas

“ Mice, I felt pretty certain, all like each other. People don't. ”

— Roald Dahl

“It felt like I’d swallowed an angry badger, which had then given birth to a million cell-sized micro-badgers who were currently mauling my insides.…

— James A. Hunter

“They might as well have been trying to fit a squirrel through the eye of a needle.”

— Maya Bode

“He felt his jaw again, wiggling it back and forth, then nodding. “And now you’ll be tellin’ me they started”

— Thomas Tryon

“He looked like a raccoon, so I told him to take off his coonskin cap. So he did. Then he looked like a rat,…

— Jarod Kintz

“I saw the animal's body tense expectantly as he saw the treat in my palm. Unfortunately, it seemed in question as to whether the…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Is this human enough?” he asked, raising both arms for inspection then letting them drop. “Will I fit in among the masses?” Oh sure,…

— Julie Kagawa

“They'd taken in a monster, thinking it was a mouse.”

— Alexandra Bracken