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Quotes About Lurk

Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Here's Daljit, Aristide's former lady-love: "Do you still have that horrible cat?" "Yes, said Bitsy. "He does." "I didn't know you were here," Daljit said weakly. "I lurk," said the cat. Bitsy is not a cat-like creature to fuck around. Of one of her fellow-AIs, she says: "I'd kick Aloysius' ass. That AI always gets my goat.
~ Walter Jon Williams
They say the warp has turned black with tempests and the freakish things that lurk within them! And here we sit, on a ship held together by rust and hope, with intent to dive into that ocean of madness.
~ James Swallow
She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther.
~ Richard Ford
Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.
~ Alfred Austin
They stole by the hut.
~ Enid Blyton
This is th' abyss. Behold wherein I lurk The lazar-house my mind, wherein do work The horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly song Sickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong.
~ Aleister Crowley
Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.
~ Margaret Atwood
they lurk passively, like vampire sheep
~ Margaret Atwood
But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.
~ Anne Bronte
Fear and debt drive this system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps.
~ John Perkins
A gripe session gets that negativity out where we can see it instead of letting it lurk around inside where it has too much power.
~ Barbara Sher
the embodiment of all the snarling chaos and grinning fear that lurk behind life
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The animal is making quite a mess," the butler droned. "Are you referring to the monkey, or to my nephew?" Fennington drawled, strolling into the room. "Hm. How long did you lurk outside the room waiting forthat opportunity?" Bennett asked
~ Suzanne Enoch
Where hope rises fear must lurk behind.
~ bronte anne ii
Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.
~ John Pope
For me, the towns where the two-legged beasts lurk are far more dangerous than the fields where the wolves roam.
~ Kobo Abe
The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk.
~ Carl Zimmer
Better to lurk, observe, and merge
~ Neal Stephenson
The old dragon had not been enthusiastic about the mission when Eragon told him about it, but neither had he opposed it. After discussing various contingencies, Glaedr had said: Beware of the shadows, Eragon. Strange things lurk in dark places , which, Eragon thought, was hardly an encouraging statement.
~ Christopher Paolini
I think he's handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.
~ Cassandra Clare
Pero los recuerdos nunca se desvanecen sin más. Permanecen ocultos y nos acechan desde los rincones más oscuros de nuestra mente.
~ Laura Gallego García
Where lurk the merry elves of autumn now, In this bright breezy month of equinox?...
~ John Todhunter, "In September"