Skittered Quotes

#1. But the war outside refused to be ignored for long. Antiaircraft guns rattled. Shrapnel skittered like claws across the roof. The bombs drew closer until their reports were followed by lower, more ominous sounds - the dull thud of walls collapsing.

Ransom Riggs

#2. Dry leaves rustled up against the walls and skittered away. It was that time of year when it could be hot or cold from day to day; it was neither summer nor fall. An in-between, liminal time. A border.

Anonymous

#3. Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet.

Walter Jon Williams

#4. That's the problem with you nearly immortal types," I said. "You couldn't spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

Jim Butcher

#5. The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

Michelle Franklin

#6. Write something about me then,' he said when I came back. He grinned. 'Go on! Now! I bet you can!'
'I don't do portraits, Choe.'
The lies liberated from this statement skittered off into infinity like images between two mirrors.

M. John Harrison

#7. Fuck, he murmured against my lips. The feel, the word, sent a hot little shock through my spine. It skittered through my veins, danced through every nerve.

Michelle Hodkin

#8. Alexa's heart jumped and skittered. She was at her favorite star's concert. And he was holding her hand!

Jennette Green

#9. The instant Isabella Cortez left the safety of the FBI building, goose bumps skittered across her skin and her senses went on high alert.

Elizabeth Heiter

#10. Every one of us living on this planet is an Other in the view of Others - I am in their view, and they are in mine.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#11. Working at the pharmacy, you get the impression that there are no healthy people in the world. The normal condition is not health but illness.

Boris Fishman

#12. The longer we delay in confronting the obstacle in our path, the bigger the difficulties grow and the smaller we become; or, to put it another way, the longer we drag a problem with us, the heavier it becomes.

A.G. Roemmers

#13. What a douche," Reagan muttered. "I'm pretty sure my mom has that scarf.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent 'carbon summer'.

Al Gore

#15. Tobacco is the tomb of love.

Benjamin Disraeli

#16. I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Zoe Kazan

#17. It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing the outside pitch in closer to the plate. But I still think we have a lot of work to do with the low end of the strike zone.

Sandy Alderson

#18. By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom.

Conan O'Brien

#19. Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, and Hal was silent forever.

Arthur C. Clarke

#20. I was supposed to be at the condo, wasting time on the beach, just Dad and me, figuring out college and my life and spending time together. Instead, I was in a new house with new people - including a future stepbrother who'd seen me naked.

Kody Keplinger

#21. My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre.

Moira Kelly

#22. The same unquestioning certainty given to English rain and Irish trouble.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#23. You've got the words to change a nation
but you're biting your tongue

Emeli Sande