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“John ignored her insult, recognizing it for what it was: a mindless jibe from one wounded animal to another.”

— Julia Quinn

“Animal magnetism,” said Ron gloomily”

— J.K. Rowling

“Mary was one who possessed power over her own spirit--rare gift, given to none but those who do something toward the taking of it.…

— George MacDonald

“Magicians scorned talking to animals; animal thoughts weren't nearly orderly enough to suit magicians, and were always full of large untidy preoccupations, like sex…

— Robin McKinley

“Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all. He felt…

— Fritz Leiber

“His mind swarmed with superstitious suspicions.”

— Herman Melville

“And ’tis most evident and plain that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress. ’Tis she alone, if she were permitted,…

— Aphra Behn

“A look I shall never forget, because it was almost one of hatred, and hatred in her face was like spite in the Virgen…

— John Fowles

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

— Kristin Cashore

“All along, she had given him the sort of On-Off treatment scientists use to drive rats insane. In humans, this merely leads to a…

— Lucy Ellmann

“Your kind has a supersitious terror of things ugly and broken; you gear that their conditon may somehow infect you.”

— Clive Barker

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

— Jane Austen