Slithered Quotes

#1. The moon climbed out of the ravine, blue, skinny, as if it had been fed on nothing but skimmed milk. It climbed out, and quickly slithered up and up along the finest thread-away from trouble, and on the very top it huddled, crouching on thin legs. ("The Protectress Of Sinners")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#2. She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

Kate Morton

#3. We both knew what was for dinner as snake like, your tongue slithered up my leg to the inside of my thigh, flicking, tasting, teasing its prey...

Virginia Alison

#4. The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay ... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale

David Lloyd George

#5. But should Bortz have exfoliated the mere words so lushly, into such unnatural roses, under which whose red, scented dusk, dark history slithered unseen?

Thomas Pynchon

#6. The word WANTED slithered across the top of each image in elegant calligraphy. The drawing of Criminy was spot-on, but the one of me was more than a little imaginative. I looked like an evil seductress, some sort of vampy witch-queen.
I liked it.
I wanted a copy for my wagon.

Delilah S. Dawson

#7. Toilet paper unrolled and slithered
then wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll me up
into an Egyptian mummy.

Melinda K. Trotter

#8. Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.

J.D. Robb

#9. Death was a quiet evil, unavoidable like the dark night and defenseless sleep and tearful sorrows. It had hunted her down and slithered close, wanting only to smother every last flicker of life."
- from "My Aquarius

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. He had learned this: Nothing that lived, nothing that walked or crawled or flew or swam or slithered or oozed - nothing, not one thing on God's earth wanted to die. No matter what people thought or said about chickens or fish or cattle - they all wanted to live.

Gary Paulsen

#11. It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head.

Thrity Umrigar

#12. The others slithered and crawled to get her the tanks and the belt, unaware that in order to really get my look, you had to accessorize with death in the family and generalized heartbreak.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. Physical wounds could heal, but verbal wounds took on a life of their own. They slithered like serpents into the subconscious mind, and made people do the one thing that could be dangerous to their sanity. Doubt.

Kristi Lambert

#14. Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

Gary Bauer

#15. She's touching me, George complained as he and Martha slithered around the pole.
'She's always touching you,' Hermes said. 'You are intertwined. And if you don't stop that, you'll get knotted again!

Rick Riordan

#16. As they slithered up the muddy bank, scores of tiny silver fish that had been feasting on the open wounds were slow to relinquish their hold and were drawn out with the carcasses. Stranded upon the mud-banks, they flopped and quivered like stars that had fallen to earth.

Wilbur Smith

#17. I slithered out of the sinkhole on my stomach. It was not the sexiest move I'd ever performed, but I was impressed nonetheless.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. Some things were above my pay grade. Actually, there were things that slithered on their bellies that were higher than my pay grade.

Jodi Taylor

#19. He let out another chuckle, one that slithered up her spine and wrapped around her throat.

Jackie Morse Kessler

#20. So we have giant super-smart vipers who slithered in here, killed our people, opened the vault, stole something from it, and slithered out, undetected?"
"Appears so."
"Okay. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't something dangerous.

Ilona Andrews

#21. It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.

Gayle Forman

#22. A small shadow slithered toward the prison wall.

Ethan Jones

#23. I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.

Rebecca Donovan

#24. The razor-edge bit into my skin as a warning and seconds later, a small, warm trickle of blood slithered all the way down between my breasts. I froze solid, unable to move, scream, or breathe; once again reminded of the glaring truth: becoming a vampire didn't mean there was nothing to fear ...

Sharon Ricklin Jones

#25. Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.

Richard Smalley

#26. Her mother is asking her a question and she is forced to resurface from the sanctuary of daydream.

Nick Bantock

#27. It's really important for me to get across to our fans that whenever I put myself in different circumstances. It is to learn from it so I can relay it to others.

Marilyn Manson

#28. It's mind-boggling, how one small choice causes a ripple effect throughout the rest of your life.

Monica Murphy

#29. Seek protection from the supreme-being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk - as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed.

Rudyard Kipling

#31. I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

Kingsley Amis

#32. In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Herbert Spencer

#33. May you know his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead.

Billy Graham

#34. Love doesn't need words to express it, the actions are always enough

Radhika Harlalka

#35. Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

Yusef Komunyakaa