Reptile Lover Quotes

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

Lizards can’t pass through walls, but if we replace the L with a W, the goal might be attained.

Women.. They can fight the biggest problems of her life but are scared of reptiles. They can bear the immense pain but cry when you scold them. They can be angry whole day but will serve hot food, no matter how late you are from the office.. They can be everything.. But they just prefer to be women..

All the girl could remember was the terrible, irremediable tension between wanting to be somewhere and wanting to be nowhere. And the plant, crazed by its proximity to rich familiar soil, tried repeatedly to Leap out of her. This caused her hand to lift, holding a long knife, and plummet earthward, rooting into the fleshy chest of her lover, feeling deeper and deeper for moisture. The Joshua tree’s greatest victory over the couple comes four months into their stay: they sign a lease. A bungalow on the outskirts of the national park, with a fence to keep out the coyotes and an outdoor shower. When the shower water gets into their mouths, it tastes like poison. Strange reptiles hug the fence posts, like colorful olives on toothpicks. Andy squeezes Angie’s hand and returns the gaze of these tiny monsters; he feels strangely bashful as they bugle their throats at him. Four months into his desert sojourn, and he still doesn’t know the name of anything. Up close, the bungalow looks a lot like a shed. The bloated vowels of his signature on the landlord’s papers make him think of a large hand blurring underwater.

I had a dream about you. You was a crocodile and i was always looking for you with fear. Your teeth were alabaster and your skin green as grass. Unfortunate you had already a girlfriend. And i hoped she finish like a handbag. I love you from my all reptile heart, which is poikilothermic.

He was an important figure in the development of English prose, too. Many words still in common use are first recorded in Elyot’s writing, including abusive, adapt, adult, boyish, concoction, encyclopedia, excrement, fragment, inimitable, involuntary, loyal, ode, perfume, ridiculous, spearmint, starfish, tension, tolerate and – rather splendidly – turnip. He also provides the first recorded use of the word ‘alligator’, but in the sense of ‘one who binds or ties something’ (it would only first be applied to the reptile fifty years later, in the 1590s). In 1538 he produced the first-ever Latin–English dictionary.