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1->''His eyes softened at the edges, and Jotaro thought, as strange as it sounded, especially coming from [[AntiHero a guy like him]], that he looked like a puppy.''
2->''A tall, buff, vampire-slaying puppy.''
3-->-- '''[[GentleGiant Jonathan Joestar]]''' being compared to a [[BigFriendlyDog puppy]], ''Fanfic/JonathanJoestarTheFirstJoJo''
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5->''"I dream of a zillion cats."''
6-->-- '''Raleigh''', ''[[ComicBook/LostAtSea Lost At Sea]]''
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8->''"She [Rue] has bright, dark, eyes and satiny brown skin and stands tilted up on her toes with her arms slightly extended to her sides, as if ready to take wing at the slightest sound. It’s impossible not to think of a bird."''
9-->-- '''Katniss Everdeen''', ''Literature/TheHungerGames''
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11->''"Shouldn'ta lost me temper, but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I suppose he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn't much left ter do."''
12-->-- '''Hagrid, giving Dudley a pig's tail''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''
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14->"When I looked at her with my power, before, I called her the Worm. She spent some time being as low on the food chain as you can get while still being able to move under her own power. As low as someone can get while still having an identity of their own. But she’s realized she’s poisonous, dangerous in her own unique way. She’s ''useful'', like a silkworm we harvest or an earthworm who works our gardens. She’s even realized she’s not alone, so long as she looks for friends among other dirty… ''contemptible'' creatures."
15-->-- '''Cherish''', ''{{Literature/Worm}}''
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17->"The wolves… they call to me, Gran,” she told her grandmother quietly, head bowed. “Sometimes… I dream about running with them and never coming back.'
18->Gran nodded, her grip tightening on [[TheBeastmaster Adriane’s]] wrist.
19->"It seems [[AffectionateNickname Little Bird]] has found her true name," Gran said, her tired eyes brightening. "Wolf Sister."
20-->-- ''Literature/AvalonWebOfMagic, Ghost Wolf''
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22->She’d always had sharp eyes, the sharpest anyone in the village had ever seen. She could pick out a goat on the slope of the mountain across the valley, or identify which fox was taking which route towards the cavy pens, or count the petals of a blossom from across the high meadow.
23->She loved to look up and watch the birds - the hummingbirds flitting between flowers, the flycatchers darting after their pray, the slow graceful circles and arcs of the eagles and lammergeiers soaring on the mountain updrafts.
24->Dreaming of how it would feel to fly, free of the chains of the stony slopes.
25-->-- [[http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/exalted/3205-exaltation-stories Untitled]] ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' fanfiction by '''Valles'''
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27->We have seen Anya blissfully raising bunnies in her happy home with Olaf, before it is ruined by his infidelity; in her grief after Xander leaves her at the altar, D'Hoffryn tells her that Xander had “domesticate[d]” her (“Hell’s Bells,” 6016), made her live a false life. Perhaps the bunnies are a long-lasting reminder that her domestic dreams only lead to heartbreak but also a reminder that she is, after all, a workaholic fighter and someone who harbors dreams of finding a loyal protector and a home and a supportive, stable role.
28-->-- '''Ananya Mukherjea''''s essay ''[[http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage26/Mukherjea.htm Gothic Relationships and Identity on Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
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30->''"They’re like sharks. Sharks can smell the faintest trace of blood. They approach using their sense of smell, determine their prey’s exact location, and attack. They head to the crime scene when they smell blood. They use all their senses to find the culprit. They tear into their prey with the sharp teeth of evidence. That’s what a detective does."''
31-->--'''Shinichi Kudo''', ''Manga/CaseClosed''
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33->Apparently this game continues to be about cats and rabbits. Who would have thought?
34-->-- '''[[https://danidanidanica.dreamwidth.org/1351.html danidanica]]''', in response to the 500th mention of those animals in ''VideoGame/IrisuSyndrome''
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36->Siamese fighting fish, fascinating creatures. Brave but of the whole, stupid. Yes they're stupid. Except for the occasional one such as we have here, who lets the other two fight. While he waits. Waits until the survivor is so exhausted that he cannot defend himself, [[VictoryByEndurance and then like SPECTRE... he strikes!]]
37-->--'''Ernst Stavro Blofeld/SPECTRE Number One''', ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''
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39->Don't you ever read books? Foxes are known to deceive.
40-->--'''Ace Ukiyo/Kamen Rider Geats''', ''Series/KamenRiderGeats''
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42-> Do you see this? ... Can you see my face? This is my true nature! You see, don't you? This is who I am! This is who we all are. We're animals! ... There's no denying it! A bunch of goddamn animals! They're sending us out to slaughter or be slaughtered... And here we sit until they tell us what to do, and how to do it! No will of our own. Just mindless obedience! We don't even know why we're fighting now, do we? All we know is that deep down, somewhere in there, we enjoy it. Destruction and violence... It's just part of our nature.
43-->--'''The Colonel''', who’s snapped and is wearing the face of a panther, ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber''
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45->''Cats. They're little devils for lashing out when you kick them. And their scratches last a long time.''
46-->--'''Warlord''', about his friend [[AntiHero Ashiol]], ''Creature Court''
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