“ Wendy’s house, unlike many in Cape Breton, had three floors, along with a basement and attic. Aside from Wendy’s bedroom, there was a laundry room. The dirty water in the sink would rush from the wash… Rebecca McNutt
“ Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling beganto affect the netting under which the three children lay.It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallics… Victor Hugo
“ Hermes smiled. I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really., George said. Martha snapped. Hermes ignored them. One night, when this boy's mother wasn't watching, he sneaked… Rick Riordan
“ The flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has never left us and it is essential that we train our ear to detect its false notes because in our case the flute is being played by the rats. Dimitris Mita
“ But he might have had a bang on the head! said Joan. Poor little boy, he thinks he was a rat!Hmm, said the receptionist, and wrote on a pink slip of paper. Philip Pullman
“ She wore red lipstick the next time that I saw her, though her hair was more voluminous with dirt than before. Owing, like everything else about these girls, to the fertility of rats. Kathy Acker
“ The real point is this: We don't know where to go because we don't know what we are. Do you want to go back to living in a sewer-pipe? And eating other people's garbage? Because that's what rats do. B… Robert C. O'Brien
“ I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits. Philip Pullman
