{"quotes":[{"text":"Gentle With Them Thar Spurs'—a sequel to 'Riders of the Purple Sau-Sage.' Spurs was the feminist novel of its day…which was Tuesday.' —Bats 2015.","author":"Fred Barnett","tags":["bats","vampires","western"],"id":31816,"author_id":"Fred+Barnett"},{"text":"Not every winged Creature is considered a bird or a bat. Some wings are made of magic.- Raani York – 2013 -.","author":"Raani York","tags":["adventure","bat","bats","bird","dragon","magic","wings","witch","witchcraft"],"id":56271,"author_id":"Raani+York"},{"text":"Depart, Satan,' she said, with a complete lack of enthusiasm. — Bats 2015.","author":"Fred Barnett","tags":["bats","vampires"],"id":77666,"author_id":"Fred+Barnett"},{"text":"These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of birds banished tourism and wildlife, made people sick and drove them from their now-valueless homes.","author":"Mike Bond","tags":["bats","birds","conservation","day","environment","home","killing-maine","maine","new-england","night","northern-lights","sustainability","tourism","wildlife","wind-turbines"],"id":79570,"author_id":"Mike+Bond"},{"text":"Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.","author":"Iris Murdoch","tags":["bats","blindness","love-hurts","radar"],"id":119419,"author_id":"Iris+Murdoch"},{"text":"Yes, I know,' Isadora said, and then read her poem, leaning forward so Carmelita Spats would not overhear:'I would rather eat a bowl of vampire batsthan spend an hour with Carmelita Spats.'The Baudelaires giggled and then covered their mouths so nobody would know they were laughing at Carmelita.'That was great,' Klaus said. 'I like the part about the bowl of bats.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["a-series-of-unfortunate-events","absurd","bats","funny","funny-poem","lemony-snicket","poem","silly","silly-poem","vampire-bats"],"id":144742,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"},{"text":"Wichtor’s been cranky ever since a fat vulture roosted on his granite Cârnat, uh, schmekel in 1864 and broke it off.' — Bats 2015.","author":"Fred Barnett","tags":["bats","vampires"],"id":167485,"author_id":"Fred+Barnett"},{"text":"She shook her head, and closed her eyes. I felt her weariness then, and with it, my own. I felt it dark and heavy upon me, darker and heavier than any drug they ever gave me - it seemed heavy as death. I looked at the bed. I have seemed to see our kisses there sometimes, I've seen them hanging in the curtains, like bats, ready to swoop. Now, I thought, I might jolt the post and they would only fall, and shatter, and turn to powder.","author":"Sarah Waters","tags":["bats","dark","drug","eyes","heavy","kisses","powder","shatter","weariness","weary"],"id":192050,"author_id":"Sarah+Waters"},{"text":"Much has been written on the excellence of bats' navigation equipment. It is all false. Tropical bats spend their entire time flying into obstacles with a horrible thudding noise. They specialize in slamming into walls and falling, fluttering onto your face. As my own 'piece of equipment essential for the field' I would strongly recommend a tennis racket; it is devastatingly effective in clearing a room of bats.","author":"Nigel Barley","tags":["bats","humour"],"id":195712,"author_id":"Nigel+Barley"},{"text":"He sniffed until the long hairs of his mustache had been sucked up into his nose and out of his leafy ears.' — Bats 2015.","author":"Fred Barnett","tags":["bats","vampires"],"id":196736,"author_id":"Fred+Barnett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}