{"quotes":[{"text":"I nearly killed a rabbit' is not an ingredient for preparing broth or pepper soup. 'I lost it' may seem bitter; but 'I nearly won it' is bitterest! Remember, if it must be done, then it must be done well!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["animal","bitter","cook","cooking","cuisine","do-it-well","dont-give-up","done-well","excel","excellent","food-for-thought","hunter","ingredient","israelmore-ayivor","never-give-up","prepare","preparing","rabbit","rat","well-done","win","winner"],"id":699,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["rat","the-cloth-of-time","time"],"id":5097,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Where's Simon?' Clary interrupted.Isabelle wobbled. 'He's a rat,' she said darkly.Did he do something to you?' Alec was full of brotherly concern. 'Did he touch you? If he tried anyt.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["humor","rat","simon-lewis","transformation"],"id":29887,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"What happened yesterday was obviously a mistake, and it will never be spoken of again. Goodbye forever.","author":"Faith Erin Hicks","tags":["endurance","faith-erin-hicks","foot-race","goodbye","rat","rooftop","the-nameless-city"],"id":114350,"author_id":"Faith+Erin+Hicks"},{"text":"I want things to change in The Nameless City. I want the people in the city to finally have some influence over its future. We've never had that before. If there's something I can do to make this council of nations happen, I want to know about it. Don't tell me not to be worried. Tell me how to help.","author":"Faith Erin Hicks","tags":["change","faith-erin-hicks","hope","how-to-help-others","influence","rat","the-nameless-city","worry"],"id":128941,"author_id":"Faith+Erin+Hicks"},{"text":"A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash ... Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldy bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. Man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times ... Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break his legs the moment he tried to.","author":"John Scott Haldane","tags":["elephants","fall","injury","mouse","rat","relative","science"],"id":132794,"author_id":"John+Scott+Haldane"},{"text":"I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bat","faith","knowledge","life","lion","philosophy","rat","rat-race","rats","relgion","religion","truth","wisdom"],"id":158690,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-'You invented the Inte.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["family","george","hermes","humor","internet","martha","patience","percy-jackson","rat"],"id":172090,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"Pye turned his paw over and chewed his claws. “Humph. What you think of me is none of my business.”“You don’t know, do you?”“Know more than you . . . Know what?”“You are dead.”Pye patted his paws. “No, I’m not.” He rolled on his back and stretched, enjoying the warmth of the fire.“I’ve been here since 1665.”Pye chuckled. “You are, if I may so, in remarkably good condition.” Apart from the hole in your head, missing tail, and pulmonic plague cough.“I’ve seen them come. Seen them go. Seem them hang around in limbo. That’s what it’s called when beings don’t leave this Earth.”“Purgatory!”“I am responsible for many deaths,” Rita said.“You!?”“They couldn’t build the graves fast enough to bury the bodies.”“I don’t understand how a mere stump-tailed fur ball could endanger life.”“If I were you I'd think that.” A silence followed before Rita said, “I did not work alone.”“Oh?","author":"Luggs","tags":["cat","heaven","hell","limbo","plague","rat","rude"],"id":177247,"author_id":"Luggs"},{"text":"They say that animals are incapable of feelings and reasoning. This is false. No living thing on earth is void of either. They also say that man is the most intelligent — and the most superior — species on earth. This is also false. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. It has been shown that both rats and monkeys learn from making errors, yet we have not. Our history proves this. All creatures on earth have the capacity to love and grieve the same way we do. No life on the planet is more deserving than another. Those who think so, are the true savages.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["animal","animals","apathy","arrogant","behavior","conversation","creature","creatures","earth","empathy","environmentalism","errors","feelings","grief","grieve","intelligent-species","learning-from-errors","learning-from-mistakes","loba","love","making-mistakes","monkey","monkeys","protection","rat","rats","reasoning","savage","species","superior-species","wildlife","world-forest"],"id":179429,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}