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Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only creature they saw was a toad as big as Will's foot, which could only flop in a pain-filled sideways heave as if it were horribly injured. It lay across the path, trying to move out of the way and looking at them as if it knew they meant to hurt it.'It would be merciful to kill it,' said Tialys.'How do you know?' said Lyra. 'It might still like being alive, in spite of everything.''If we killed it, we'd be taking it with us,' said Will. 'It wants to stay here. I've killed enough living things. Even a filthy stagnant pool might be better than being dead.''But if it's in pain?' said Tialys.'If it could tell us, we'd know. But since it can't, I'm not going to kill it. That would be considering our feelings rather than the toad's.'They moved on.

Philip Pullman
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After the sorts of winters we have had to endure recently, the spring does seem miraculous, because it has become gradually harder and harder to believe that it is actually going to happen. Every February since 1940 I have found myself thinking that this time winter is going to be permanent. But Persephone, like the toads, always rises from the dead at about the same moment. Suddenly, towards the end of March, the miracle happens and the decaying slum in which I live is transfigured.

George Orwell, Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
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If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

Dave Barry
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It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

Jim Butcher, Summer Knight
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It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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In Europe, what seems to bond toads and toadstools strongly is their shared role as potentially toxic "agents of death", and their close associations with magic and the supernatural. In Christian thought, both were seen to represent the dark and evil threads of nature's tapestry. Both appeared in late medieval art in representations of hell, particularly in the work of Flemish artists.

Adrian Morgan
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Toads are to dragons what carrots are to unicorns.

Ness Kingsley, The Curse of Cackling Meadows
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To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.

Foxy Brown
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Marianne Moore
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Turns out, most girls would rather put on lip gloss than play with sand toads.

Jenny Lundquist, The Charming Life of Izzy Malone
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