Rats Quotes

“It's not a big deal. Every can of tuna fish in the supermarket has rat hairs and vermin bone fragments in it. Cockroach legs. Pieces of spiders. you got everything in there. Just like hot dogs.”
― Paul Zindel, Rats

“people had ruined the water and the land and the fair for as far as she could see. Oil-and-grease-covered barges lined a dead black shore. Everything was endangered. Crawling. Dying.

As senseless as their mother's death.”
― Paul Zindel, Rats

“There was level upon level of irregular compartments and tunneling, as if someone had taken an ax and chopped away the front of a massive hive of termites or bees. But instead of insects, hundreds- thousands!- of rats shimmered and moved like ghastly images in an intricated tapestry. The megalopolis of rodents appeared suspended in shock for a moment, then began to fracture and drop.”
― Paul Zindel, Rats

“Panic began to ride her, shake her to her marrow. The surface of her skin prickled, revolted as though bathed in a nightmare. A nightmare beyond reason and thought and imagination. The dread of rats had been programmed into her young genes, into centuries of being human. Into mankind's long evolution and deep, deep, cry to survive.”
― Paul Zindel, Rats

“Her breathing was shallow. Gasping. 'There are rats in my toilet.”
― Paul Zindel, Rats