Surprises Quotes

“Hurt no living thing: ladybug not butterfly. Nor moth with dusty wing, not cricket chirping cheerily, nor grasshopper so light of leap, nor dancing gnat, not beetle fat, nor harmless worms that creep.”

“Jerry has freckles, peppered like spice. A Jerry has a pony I rode on twice. I think freckles are awfully nice.”

“What do caterpillars do? Nothing much but chew and chew. What do caterpillars know? Nothing much but how to grow. They just cat what by and by will make them a butterfly. But that is more than I can do however much I chew and chew.”

“Bees in the late summer sun, drone their song of yellow moons. Trimming black velvet, droning, droning a sleepysong. Honeybees are very tricky_ honey doesn’t make them sticky.”

“Kitten, my kitten, soft and dear, I am so glad that we are here sitting together Just us two you loving me and me loving you.”

“Wasps like coffee, Syrup, tea, coca-cola, butter, me. I am very fond of bugs, I kiss the, and I give them hugs.”

“When I grow up, I plan to keep eleven cats, and let them sleep on any bedspread that they wish, and feed them people’s tuna fish.”

“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?”

“Hamsters are the nicest things that anyone could own. I like them even better than some dogs that I have known. Their fur is soft, their faces nice. They’re small when they are grown. And they sit inside your pocket when you are all alone.”

“My dog didn’t bark at anything _ a cat, a bird, a piece of string, a siren or a silly toad, a pick-up truck along the road, a fence, a bone, a chewed-up shoe _ he barked because he wanted to.”