I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will have to keep that DEAD secret. See? If you don't, if you even breathe a word of what you've heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes."
Sam fell on his knees, trembling. "Get up, Sam!" Said Gandalf. "I have thought of something better than that. Something to keep you quiet, and punish you properly for listening. You shall go away with Mr. Frodo!"
"Me, sir!" cried Sam, springing up like a dog invited for a walk. "Me go and see Elves and all! Hooray!" he shouted, and then burst into tears.
Tags: secret gandalf tears dog snakes elves frodo-baggins samwise-gamgee toad
He knew for a fact that he was so hopelessly bad at seeing through camouflage that, if left alone in the forest, he might even attempt to make fire by rubbing two snakes together.
Sorin SuciuTags: humor snakes outdoors geek-humor geeks geek
It was as if the room beyond the blast furnace was a tub and someone had turned the faucets on the cold and hot running snakes.
Joe HillTags: snakes
I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my bald skull and rips out a chunk of flesh. I snatch the snake from its heartless home and chew its head off. I'm starting to enjoy this biting business.
Darren ShanTags: snakes grubbs-grady lord-loss
Life in a box was unbearable.
How did humans stand it?
Tags: ethics humans snakes box reptiles
I was familiar with humans at this point only from afar, but even from there, I found them a pitiable species: scaleless, fangless, clawless, nearly furless, wingless, venomless, witless.
I honestly didn't understand how they had thrived so.
Tags: humans snakes species thriving
Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt.
How I longed to return to it! I licked at the air, trying to smell the desert's delicious dusty scent, but could not. How was I able to see it without smelling it? Did humans control scents as well as the temperature and the waters?
Is that what windows were for, to keep out scents? Why did they wish to put invisible barriers between themselves and the world?
Tags: world windows scents humans wild snakes scent
So I'd been captured? So I was starving?
Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die?
I could still slither. I could still hiss.
Nothing had been stolen from me except my freedom.
What I needed was a new plan.
Tags: freedom ethics snakes snake reptile captivity pet
What is with these guys?
Where's the thrill in watching snakes eat?
I certainly didn't thrill in watching humans eat.
Tags: humor animals eating humans snakes
There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.
Lemony SnicketTags: snakes
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