“We may be rats in a maze as far as the Obama administration is concerned, but in Texas, we are rats with a firm knowledge of just where the button is and how to push it. It helps us put up with all the nonsense and it would do the folks in Washington well to remember that. - Tom King ("Why the Secession Talk in Texas")”
“In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.”
“Well," Jenni said with a wry smile, "at least we live in Texas, where people actually own guns and hunt.”
“How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?”
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
“Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead.""Ding dong, the witch is dead,”