“Even such sophisticated mammals as the great predator cats occasionally eat their cubs. A mother cat will be observed licking the area around the umbilical cord of the helpless newborn. She licks, she licks, she licks until something snaps in her brain, and she begins eating, starting there, at the vulnerable belly.”
"Fecundity", p. 171
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1976)
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“Ummm…” She licked her lips. “Define fun.”
“Quit doing that, jailbait. It’s distracting.”
Source: The Dead Girls' Dance
“Eat it, lick it, snort it, fuck it!”
Response to a reporter asking her how she was doing, amidst all the media attention giving to her personal life, as quoted in "Britney Goes on Foul-Mouthed Tirade" in Extra http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2007/10/britney_leaves_downtown_after.php (26 October 2007).
Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Narrated in Saheeh Muslim, Book 026, Number 5570
Sunni Hadith
“I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
