Quote by Rick Riordan

“Why do I hate spiders? Gods, who doesn't? What a stupid question.”

— Steven Erikson

“I don't like spiders”

— J.K. Rowling

“She hoped it wasn't a spider. Spiders made Coraline intensely uncomfortable.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Athena's jealousy made a monster of fair Medusa. I often wonder what beauty my own demons have destroyed.”

— Nichole McElhaney

“Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.”

— Heidi R. Kling

“She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and a napkin.…

— Rudy Francisco

“He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourslef to crush in your own hand disgusts you.”

— Patrick Süskind

“Everyday, Athena. Everyday, each of us has to face a battle against our own shadows. Don't think you're any different. But this is why…

— Karen Francisco

“But a spider was, after all, only a spider. Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing…

— Stephen King

“But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don’t plead with it to be a good little spider and please…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.”

— Robert Goolrick

“She was afraid, too, frightened of what she found herself becoming. She felt that she was transforming into a malevolent black spider, hunched back…

— Laura Kinsale