{"quotes":[{"text":"Yes, an actual full-sized camel. If you find that confusing, just think how the criosphinx must have felt.Where did the camel come from, you ask? I may have mentioned Walt’s collection of amulets. Two of them summoned disgusting camels. I’dmet them before, so I was less than excited when a ton of dromedary flesh flew across my line of sight, plowed into the sphinx, and collapsed on topof it. The sphinx growled in outrage as it tried to free itself. The camel grunted and farted.“Hindenburg,” I said. Only one camel could possibly fart that badly. “Walt, why in the world—?”“Sorry!” he yelled. “Wrong amulet!”The technique worked, at any rate. The camel wasn’t much of a fighter, but it was quite heavy and clumsy. The criosphinx snarled and clawedat the floor, trying unsuccessfully to push the camel off; but Hindenburg just splayed his legs, made alarmed honking sounds, and let loose gas.I moved to Walt’s side and tried to get my bearings.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["carter-kane","destruction","earthquakes","floods","funny","funny-and-random","giant-snake","humour","ra","rebellious","riordan","riots","sadie-kane","serpent","snake","sun","survive","tornado","tsunamis"],"id":27304,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"I had to feel sorry for Bubba's wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and smile at the alarm we see in the eyes of others.","author":"James Lee Burke","tags":["alcoholism","asp","denial","snake"],"id":43960,"author_id":"James+Lee+Burke"},{"text":"The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["bible","christianity","eden","pain","serpent","snake","suffering"],"id":52987,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["betrayal","heartbreak","love","snake","snakes"],"id":67845,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearian ' To be or not to be ' we could favor ' to become or not to become'. By 'becoming', we challenge the range of possibilities in our life and go beyond the merely 'being'. We can retreat, then, from the imprisonment of a deadly routine, acquire an identity and develop our personality. ( 'Man without Qualities' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["acquire","assembled","becoming","being","beyond","call-into-question","capable","challenge","create","deadly","develop","favour","get-rid-of","habits","identity","imprisonment","life","man","matters","merely","personality","possibilities","qualities","range","retreat","routine","shakespearean","shed","skin","snake","space","to-be-or-not-to-be","to-become","to-go"],"id":95190,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"If I die today, will you remember me tomorrow?The love I'm leaving behind, will you care to borrow? From a snake-shed-skin or from the sky unknownIn all living and the dead I'll dwell to groan.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["borrow","borrowing","care","dead","death","death-and-dying","death-of-a-loved-one","death","die","dwell","groan","leaving","living","love","poem","poetry","poetry","poetry","sky","snake","snake-skin","today","today-tomorrow","tomorrow-leave","unknown","verse"],"id":96632,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Patrick Jennings","tags":["captivity","ethics","freedom","pet","reptile","snake","snakes"],"id":96998,"author_id":"Patrick+Jennings"},{"text":"The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.","author":"Abraham Verghese","tags":["evil","snake"],"id":103683,"author_id":"Abraham+Verghese"},{"text":"Every great story seems to begin with a snake.","author":"Nicolas Cage","tags":["snake","story","seems "],"id":112298,"author_id":"Nicolas+Cage"},{"text":"Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.","author":"Mike Mignola","tags":["bprd","gary-gianni","great-old-ones","hellboy","horror","into-the-silent-sea","lovecraft","lovecraftian","mignola","mike-mignola","pirates","serpent","snake"],"id":180101,"author_id":"Mike+Mignola"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}