#serpent

I’m leaving.” Her cold lips barely moved as she mouthed the words. Horror fisted around his vitals. “No.” For the first time she met his eyes. Hers were red-rimmed but dry. “I have to leave, Simon.” “No.” He was a little boy denied a sweet. He felt like falling down and screaming. “Let me go.” “I can’t let you go.” He half laughed here in the too-bright, cold London sun before his own house. “I’ll die if I do.” She closed her eyes. “No, you won’t. I can’t stay and watch you tear yourself apart.” “Lucy.” “Let me go, Simon. Please.” She opened her eyes, and he saw infinite pain in her gaze. Had he done this to his angel? Oh, God. He unclasped his hands. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#lucy #simondabomb #the-serpent-prince #the-sun-watches-the-sun

Better a serpent than a stepmother! ↗

— Euripides

#serpent #stepmother #than

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. ↗

— James Connolly

#democracy #enter #enters #industrial #only

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#destruction #earthquakes #floods #funny #funny-and-random

There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!" ... "Sadie," My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#children-s #humor #mythology #serpent-in-the-shadows #humor

My darling Lucy.” He panted against her ear, and then his teeth scraped her earlobe. “I love you,” he whispered. “Don’t ever leave me. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#lucy #simondababe #the-serpent-prince #love

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#arrow #fly #ill #leave #leaves

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#alligators #besides #certainly #common #during

Woman is at once apple and serpent. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#once #serpent #woman