Quote by W.R. Gingell

“I should have realized that somebody that pretty was dangerous. She was like a freaking walking Venus flytrap.”

— Tara A. Fuller

“People, she was discovering, were like cockroaches: If you allowed one in, more were sure to follow.”

— Stacia Kane

“She was truly one of the most ancient and wildest of creatures.”

— Thea Harrison

“Her kind was supposed to be irresistibly alluring to humans. She was the humanoid equivalent of a Venus flytrap.”

— Sarah Beth Durst

“You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a…

— Rob Sheffield

“If anything in nature was as beautiful as it was deadly, it was she.”

— Randy C. Dockens

“Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten.”

— Kami Garcia

“Remember, this is the time of the cockatrice. It has hatched from its egg. So who now dares say what will be?”

— Philip Dodd

“No one took her seriously because she was small and feathered, a strange little dino-bird, but she had a sickle claw and she was…

— Anne Ursu

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh

“Interesting. Claws and teeth and ferocity mixed with the subtlety to manipulate creatures larger than itself. A worthy creature.”

— K.A. Applegate

“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.”

— Mary MacLane