Animal Quote by Randall Jarrell

“Definitely not a Gertrude.”

— Robert Liparulo

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin

“Which of them, then, was more detestable? The one who was loathsome by nature, or the one who wanted to be loathsome but hadn't…

— Orson Scott Card

“Alice started to understand why people found her repulsive. In stories, anyone who didn't look quite right, who wasn't a perfect human being, was…

— Georgia Byng

“Though they were very dissimilar in character, they also shared many tastes and appetites, and those they didn’t share they tolerated in each other…

— Colleen McCullough

“Eliza had a skill for rat catching, though she didn't like to do it. The rats were just trying to stay alive after all,…

— Kate Morton

“peoples, like so many beasts, have fallen into the custom of each man thinking only of his own private interests and have reached the…

— Giambattista Vico

“To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless…

— Jack Ketchum

“But what do you think, my lady?' 'I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained. ' For…

— Lisa Klein

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“There was another occupant of the living-room, curled up on a couch, who must not be overlooked, since he was a creature of marked…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?”

— Charlotte Brontë