“There's no subtext, no social commentary," Malicia went on, still twiddling. "The most interesting thing that happens at all is when Doris the Duck loses a shoe - a *duck* losing a *shoe*, right? - and it turns up under the bed after they've spent the entire story looking for it. Do you call that narrative tension? Because I don't. If people are going to make up stupid stories about animals pretending to be human, at least there could be a bit of interesting violence-”
― The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
― The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
“I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that what I just said?”
― Six of Crows
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that what I just said?”
― Six of Crows
“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.”
― The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
― The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
“The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.”
― The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
― The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
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