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Quotes About Centipedes

That,' he confessed aloud, 'was as ludicrous a case of mutual ineptitude as the gods of slapstick ever engineered. We both deserve to be tickled to death by small green centipedes. Well... if you keep quiet about it, I will.
~ Poul Anderson
Nothing except the roots of the old peach tree…and a whole lot of earthworms and centipedes and insects living in the soil. But
~ Roald Dahl
I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy?
~ Gillian Flynn
There's a big luscious peach of a dream in L.A. The peach has been repeatedly exposed as overripe and tainted with wormholes... but it's still the only giant peach in town. Even if it's wet-brown and crawling with centipedes, everyone wants their bite.
~ Cintra Wilson
The flesh-eating cockroaches and venomous centipedes in the Gomantong cave in Borneo were pretty unsavoury. They turn the floor of the cave, which is itself the world's largest pile of bird and bat poo, into a seething mass of invertebrate horror!
~ Steve Backshall
Back to my apartment? The FBI is there just waiting to slap handcuffs on me. Well then I guess you shouldn't have decided to become a terrorist, Harry! Hey, I never-- Bob raised his voice and shouted toward the centipedes, I'm not with him!
~ Jim Butcher