{"quotes":[{"text":"It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emerge from the bowels of hell (or the garden, whichever's nearest) with the sole intention of tormenting humankind.","author":"Charlie Brooker","tags":["arachnophobia","dread","fear","funny","humor","humour","spiders","torment"],"id":30854,"author_id":"Charlie+Brooker"},{"text":"I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders.' Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs.","author":"Davey Havok","tags":["arachnid","arachnids","bugs","cows","death","debate","insects","meat","murder","religion","spider","spiders","steak","vegan","vegetarian"],"id":51261,"author_id":"Davey+Havok"},{"text":"I sit in front of the notebook and feel like it’s just too late for me. And that this book isn’t working, nothing’s working, everything feels like it’s made of spiders.","author":"Jessica Abel","tags":["depression","despair","spiders","writing"],"id":56515,"author_id":"Jessica+Abel"},{"text":"They made for his noise far quicker than he had expected. They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever like being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course, is insulting to anybody.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["hobbit","humour","insults-and-slander","spiders","tolkien"],"id":64772,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"We were friends before.” Sort of. We never tried to kill each other.","author":"Amanda Bouchet","tags":["epic","fantasy","greek-gods","kickass-heroine","mythology","snakes","spiders"],"id":73967,"author_id":"Amanda+Bouchet"},{"text":"His gaze hits mine with the force of a battering ram. He looks… appalled. “I-I won’t do this. I can’t… be with you.","author":"Amanda Bouchet","tags":["cerberus","epic-fantasy","gods","greek-mythology","hades","persephone","poseidon","snakes","spiders"],"id":153331,"author_id":"Amanda+Bouchet"},{"text":"Simon stopped listening. He realised he'd had enough. Enough of the theories, enough of the mystery, enough of the bullshit. Enough of the soldiers and guns and MI5. Enough of bugs in phones and in people he cared about. Enough of not being cared about back. Enough of uncertainty and lies and civilisation, collapsing or not. Enough of is part in it, his place, his role; the character of Simon Parfitt and all the baggage it entailed.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","baggage","bugs","civilisation","end-of-the-world","fed-up","horror","soldiers","spiders","technology","thriller"],"id":174509,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"I don’t know why it’s not universally acknowledged that looking back is a terrible idea. It only makes going forward that much harder.","author":"Amanda Bouchet","tags":["action-packed","cerberus","epic-fantasy","greek-gods","greek-mythology","hades","magic","oracle","persephone","poseidon","snakes","spiders","wizard","zeus"],"id":174571,"author_id":"Amanda+Bouchet"},{"text":"It’s just you always…”\t“Run,” I finish for him…\tI gaze up at him. Soft light plays over his striking features – the hard planes of his cheekbones, his strong jaw, the slight hook in his nose. “I’ll still run, Griffin. The difference now is that I’ll run to you.”\tHe looks at me for a long time, his gray eyes inscrutable. “You’d better.”\tI arch an eyebrow. “Or you’ll spank me?","author":"Amanda Bouchet","tags":["cerberus","epic","fantasy","gods","greek-mythology","kickass-heroine","snakes","spiders"],"id":200861,"author_id":"Amanda+Bouchet"},{"text":"Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.","author":"Leslie Land","tags":["snow","spiders","winter","woods"],"id":248272,"author_id":"Leslie+Land"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}