Prey Quotes

“If we are not apt to steer our life and engineer our individuality, we become preys of the pecking order or panting cardboard characters turning into walking dead. ("Terra incognita" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“My panties were still on but he didn’t let that stop him, nosing them out of the way and tonguing my sex, making low, growling noises in his throat like a big cat purring with pleasure while it devoured its prey.”
― Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar

“But what would they have said to their Liaison? It’s like this, Meg. We didn’t like that Asia Crane, so we ate her.
When dealing with humans, honesty isn’t always the best policy, Vlad thought”
― Anne Bishop, Written in Red

“The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell.”
― Aaron B. Powell, Doomsday Diaries III: Luke the Protector

“If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators”
― Alyxandra Harvey, My Love Lies Bleeding

“Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.”
― Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape

“You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!”
― Rachel Vincent, Prey

“Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.”
― Nenia Campbell, Black Beast

“Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.”
― David Rains Wallace, Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays

“Fear is the venom impact of predator sting,
causing prey not to be focus on the survival.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“The predators must prey. The prey must be predated. They only wish to be preyed upon by someone who'll do the job properly.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

“No man can tame a predator by acting like prey.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“It's great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the howling of the wolves.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“Once you kill the predator inside you, you become prey.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“A group of tiny warriors no more than 2" high, their dark skins making them almost impossible to see, were silently surrounding an unsuspecting rodent. The kill was quick, the prey lifted in half a dozen miniature arms, & to Claire's surprise, thrown against the 3rd rail. There was a sudden flash, a wisp of smoke, & tiny voices chanting: "Bar. Be. Que! Bar! Be! Que!”
― Tanya Huff, The Second Summoning

“Thoughts will always prey on your mind.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.

And I was not a mouse.

I was a wolf.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Wolf or mouse, it made no difference, because I became no more than an animal, sizing up my chance of survival.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Above her young, supple body, beneath her black, beautiful hair, her skin was grey- wrinkled and sagging and dry. And where eyes should have gleamed instead lay rotting black pins. Her lips had withered to nothing but deep, dark lines around a hole full of jagged stumps of teeth- like she had gnawed on too many bones.

And I knew she would be gnawing on my bones soon if I did not get out.

Her nose- perhaps once pert and pretty, now half-caved in- flared as she sniffed in my direction.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“In this godforsaken city, predators make fortunes, and the prey? The prey either end up praying or doing drugs.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Am I resolved to believe that Hawk’s hooked beak
will sometime be hammered into Hummingbird’s flute?”
― Seth Wieck

“You should never forget who you’re dealing with. I’ll always be the predator who will hunt you, mo chreach bheag. You will always be the only prey I will chase.”
― Dolores Lane, Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

“A hunter's unbridled passion for his victim pulsed in time with a swelled vein on his temple. Even when sated, a cat will pounce on a bird with a broken wing because that is how the cat and all her ancestors were made: the bird acts like a victim and the sweetness of harsh punish- ment for the victim is, for the hunter, stronger than hunger and more demanding than lust.”
― Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Yet if a young bowhead made it to adulthood, it could easily outlive the whaler who had tried to kill it as a calf – and then bury his son and his grandson as well.”
― Joe Roman, Whale

“Humans are not...they're more like us than you imagine. We come from them."
"And they were once fish who grew legs and pushed their way out from a primordial soup. And even they eat fish for dinner.”
― David Ferraro, A Vile Season

“I feed on fear. A certain biochemical reaction happens when a predator becomes prey.”
― Malachai Blackthorn, The Covenant of Flesh

“Relax. We just had a three-course meal, and no one died. I don't think the manor plans on poisoning us."

"How do you know?" Scott's upper lip curls, a dog giving a warning growl. .

"Because a smart predator doesn't contaminate prey before eating it.”
― Mallory Arnold, How to Survive a Horror Story

“The softest creatures make the loudest exits”
― Abyssino