Friendship Quote by Robert Carter

“Angry at being angry—there’s a worm that will eat its tail and no mistake. I should have Oroborus on my family crest.”

— Mark Lawrence

“He has the face of a toad, the manners of a pig, and the mind of a flea.”

— Susan Maupin Schmid

“It was a fitting animal for a priest. Cats guard the secrets of the otherworld and are liaisons with mystic realms. Protectors of esoteric…

— M.J. Rose

“It seemed off that anyone could live behind such a high hedge of thorns, and he began to think it would be no great…

— Susanna Clarke

“It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time.”

— Albert Camus

“He smiles. I sit a few feet away and watch as he unpacks the linen bag. “Torin packed this, not Rayna, so who knows…

— Veronica Rossi

“He is quiet and small, he is black From his ears to the tip of his tail; He can creep through the tiniest crack…

— T.S. Eliot

“When Toad found himself immured in a dank and noisome dungeon, and knew that all the grim darkness of a medieval fortress lay between…

— Kenneth Grahame

“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change into a serpent in his hand and…

— Nicholas A. Basbanes

“He draws a line under his conclusions. Says, 'Gregory, what should I do about the great worm?' 'Send a commission against it, sir,' the…

— Hilary Mantel

“And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.”

— William Shakespeare