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41 " Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle. We have come from the roar of the lion to the chirp of the tree frog, ceaselessly bleating our identities while the frog-eating bats hover above us. "

42 " The butterflies in my stomach turn into vampire bats as we pull up to the school. "

― Cat Clarke , Torn

43 " The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls. "

― Sylvia Plath , Ariel

44 " They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered. "

― Enid Blyton , The Secret Island (Secret Series, #1)

45 " The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets. "

― Sherman Alexie , The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

46 " Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the breaching fish causing ringed ripples and a satisfying plop. Other times, time flashes by in an immodest fashion. So it is with the start of war. First time quivers with the last strum of a wonderful peace, the note holding in the air, mysterious and haunting, filling the listener with awe. Then, with a rising crescendo the terror starts with uncouth haste; with a boom the listener is shaken from their reverie and delivered into the servitude, of an ear-shattering cacophony. "

― M.A. Lossl , Mizpah Cousins: life, love and perilous predicaments during the Great War era.

47 " If the goddess—and that would be me, by the way—is displeased, you’ll get bats in your hair and mice in your boots. "

― Cherise Sinclair , Master of the Abyss (Mountain Masters & Dark Haven, #2)

48 " Cat's brows shot up as Lucas slid the plate across the counter. " I'm impressed. I wouldn't have assumed you ate real food much less cooked it," she teased. " I'm curious, what did you think I ate?" he asked as he grabbed a fork and a knife for her. She smiled. " I don't know, bats... small critters you happen upon in the underworld." Lucas handed her a napkin. " Nah, bats don't really have that much meat on them," he retorted with a grin of his own. "

49 " It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it’s a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid. "

― Sara Sheridan , London Calling

50 " She sees tall, sensible Eleanor sitting out on a terrace at twilight, with bats circling above her head. She sees the Pargiter family rising and falling through the decades like swimmers battling the waves.’Summer Lies Bleeding "

51 " The bats inebriate the sky . . . "

52 " The more you say goodbye, the stupider you’ll feel when we’re blitzed as bats at the victory party. "

― Meg Merriet , Sky Song Overture

53 " I'd like to get out of Philadelphia. I don't care for the people or their attitude, although they don't bother me or my play. But maybe the Phillies can get a couple of broken bats and shower shoes for me. "

54 " Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses. "

55 " The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. "