Time Quote by Ilona Andrews

“He fell into a solemn silence, which he only eventually broke to say, “I think I’ve become a terrible person. In fact, I’ve become…

— Valeria Luiselli

I'm deathly afraid of rats.

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

“I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat," she mused. "Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out,…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I saw two lizards kissing yesterday, but I scared them off. Maybe I should have taken off my bird costume before peeping on them.”

— Jarod Kintz

“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…

— Philip Pullman

“Facing one of my own species terrified me far more than fighting an army of blood spitting bugs.”

— Pam Godwin

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

— Stephen King

“Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.”

— Ed Brubaker

“Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

“Sometimes you just have to trust your pet rat's instincts.”

— Danielle Paige, Dorothy Must Die

“We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.”

— Greg Iles

“There mostly is rats an’ mice in attics. You gets used to the noise they makes scuttling about. I’ve got so I don’t mind…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett