Scuttling Quotes

#1. Love is a pain in disguise, a scorpion lying in wait for just the right moment to strike and inject you with its poison before scuttling off into the shadows.

Ellen Hopkins

#2. impinged on the normal nightly Holcomb noises - on the keening hysteria of coyotes, the dry scrape of scuttling tumbleweed, the racing, receding wail of locomotive

Truman Capote

#3. There, scuttling across the floor, blind and querulous, is the old cell phone - scrabbling and bulky, trying to get away from you.

Jeff VanderMeer

#4. Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.

Fritz Leiber

#5. They're here!" he cried, slamming the door and scuttling to the window.
Amber frowned. "The vampires?"
Glen looked back at her, real fear on his face. "Your parents.

Derek Landy

#6. For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

Andrea Levy

#7. He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. I arrived here a King's Hand, riding through the gates at the head of my own sworn men, Tyrion reflected, and I leave like a rat scuttling through the dark, holding hands with a spider.

George R R Martin

#9. My task was to ensure that the people scuttling in the background of the film would be real Vietnamese things and dressed in real Vietnamese clothing, right before they died.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#10. Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard, to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over the earth and spitting forth his venom of death!

Richard Wright

#11. [ ... ]And his head is on fire with new things[ ... ]he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of a new shell, but now he looks at the sky and knows that no shell will ever be big enough, ever.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Listen," you said.
"To what? There's nothing."
"There is. Maybe not shopping centers and cars, but other things ... buzzing insects, racing ants, a slight wind making the tree creak, there's a honeyeater up there, scuttling around, and the camels are coming.

Lucy Christopher

#13. It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.

George Orwell

#14. She felt as if she were being sucked dry by little vampires. End up like one of those pruney leather guys you see scuttling around downtown, she thought. That's part of the price you pay for coming to work in L.A. - The Glass Hammer

Jeter K. W.

#15. It was a mansion of ghosts and monsters, with ghouls in the shadows and demons scuttling behind the wainscotting.

Alastair Reynolds

#16. People think hermit crabs are cute, but I can't think of anything creepier. Some dead thing's shell, with legs poking out of it. Scuttling. Feeding on corpses. Living in a borrowed skin of death.

Nick Lake

#17. It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.

Bailey White

#18. He looked at the viewscreen and couldn't believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it would've been up his nose! There was an urgent scuttling as the bridge crew scrambled back into their respective seats.

Christina Engela

#19. You know every alley in my mind, every broken bottle and rat scuttling in there.

Joanna Bourne

#20. I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

T. S. Eliot

#21. No.' She took my hand. 'Let's make a French exit.' 'What's a French exit?' 'It's when you leave without saying goodbye.' 'I've never heard that before.' A French exit; no thank you for having me, no I've had a lovely time. To just walk away, cool and aloof. I wondered if I could.

David Nicholls

#22. But one way or another competing and weeding takes place ... or a race goes downhill.

Robert A. Heinlein

#23. I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Criss Jami

#24. Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!

Leo Tolstoy

#25. I was never one to like power, but in the back of everyone's mind, you secretly wouldn't mind having some at one point or another. To be able to make things the way you wanted them would be an amazing thing.

Holly Hood

#26. Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward.

Tove Jansson