The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Overview
Cats didn't have to think. They just had to know what they wanted. Humans had to do the thinking. That's what they were for.
[p. 23]
Hamnpork had replied, 'Teeth. Claws. Tail. Run. Hide. Eat. That's what a rat is.'
Dangerous Beans had said, 'But now we can also say "what is a rat?"' he said. 'And that means we're more than that.'
[p. 59]
'If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.'
'And what if your story doesn't work?'
'You keep changing it until you find one that does.'
[p. 148, Malicia and Keith]
'It's just like crop circles. No matter how many aliens own up to making them, there are always a few diehards who believe that humans go out with garden rollers in the middle of the night-'
[p. 198, Malicia]
You will have worked out that there is a race in this world which steals and kills and spreads disease and despoils what it cannot use, said the voice of Spider.
'Yes,' said Dangerous Beans. 'That's easy. It's called humanity.'
[p. 206]
'You have plans for rats? Well, I have dreams for them.'
[p. 209, Dangerous Beans]
'Here's what I suggest,' he [Darktan] said. 'You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.'
[p. 247]
'You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.'
[p. 255, Sardines]
Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance o the music if you want to stay ahead.
[p. 270]