#serpent

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#great #left #little #serpent

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

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold. ↗

— Robert Lowell

#cold #serpents #whistle

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