porcupines Quotes

“The family section ran a regular feature about kids on their birthdays, and my mother had called in some info. The last sentence read: ‘As a hobby, Leo Borlock collects porcupine neckties.‘”

“Go pet a kitten, pet a dog, go pet a worm for practice, but don’t go to pet a porcupine....You want to be a cactus?”

“When the bear finds something unpleasant, like a smelly skunk or a prickly porcupine, he learns that the five senses have both good and bad traits.”

“Mum won’t let me keep a rabbit, She won’t let me keep a bat. She won’t let me keep a porcupine, or a water-rat. ”

″...and the time she cooked a whole porcupine, with all its spines, who knows why, surely just to shock us when she raised the cover of the dish...”