Gregor The Overlander Quotes
"What was the point, anyway? It wouldn't change one thing. Not the heat, not the boredom, not the endless space of summer laid out before him."
"Looking after his little sisters was a big part of it."
"By September, I'll probably be ecstatic when we get the phone bill."
"Great, Day One and I'm looking forward to a trip to the laundry room."
"It's because I can feel it. I know he's coming back."
"As happy as some daydream would make him, it only made returning to reality more painful."
"The notes seemed to carry him to a different world altogether."
"In our conversations, it was clear he understood the workings of nature," said Vikus.
"It is hard to imagine what any of us would do in the caves of the rats," said Vikus gently.
"To keep sanity must be a struggle, to keep honor a Herculean feat."
"Rats have no thumbs and therefore cannot do many things that we can."
"Be glad, Overlander, if they believe your father can be useful. It is all that will give him time," said Luxa sadly.
"LUXA speaks true. At present, the rats are our bitter enemies."
"I don't see why they hate us so much," said Gregor.
"We must tell him, Luxa. He must know what he faces," said Vikus.
"Sandwich was a visionary," said Vikus. "He foretold many things that have happened to our people."
"The hope of the hopeless resides in a quest."
"An Overland warrior, a son of the sun, may bring us back light, he may bring us back none."
"The fate of the eight is contained in his hands."
"No, but the rats would. We need our eyes to fight, they do not," said Vikus.
"The crawlers do not think in the same manner we do," said Vikus.
"Stay you!" cried Vikus, as Luxa, Henry, and Mareth sprang up, swords in hand.
"The hardest lesson for a soldier to learn is to obey orders he believes are wrong," said the rat philosophically.
"You will manage. Henry and Luxa are well trained, and you show great resourcefulness," said Solovet.
"I am sorry, Gregor," said Vikus. "I have worked long to build bridges between ourselves and the spinners."
"It is time for those of us not named by the prophecy to return home."
"Well, I prefer to think of myself as a legend, but I suppose 'guide' will do," said a deep, world-weary voice from the dark.
"I am not sure exactly. Perhaps two or so years. Of course, it was all dependent upon your arrival."
"I do not believe in giving people more information than they can handle."
"Who says I can't handle it? I can handle it!"
"And eight will be left when we count up the dead."
"The fate of the eight is contained in his hands, so bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps, as life may be death and death life again reaps."
"You mean the idiots that I handpicked for cowardice and ineptitude?"
"Do not flatter yourself you have yet fought a rat."
"Mutual need is a strong bond. Stronger than friendship, stronger than love."
"Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write."
"Fly you high, Gregor the Overlander." - Vikus
"Oh, man," he said, hurrying to help his dad out. "Oh, man, look."
"Yes, moon, little girl. Look, Dad, it's the moon!"
"Come on, let's grab a cab. Go see Mama, Boots?" he asked.
"You're just looking for trouble," he said softly to the cockroach.