The Rats Quotes
"The only interest that had ever been shown by others was on the day they took the old woman away."
"He wasn’t the type. Guilfoyle could hold his own in the company of any group of men."
"The boy had watched the girls all right, but not with the exaggerated look of lust."
"Then, slowly at first, things began to change."
"His older colleagues didn’t seem to have too much to say to him anymore."
"He went home again that lunch time, buying a fresh bottle of Scotch on the way."
"The biggest division between working class and middle class nowadays was accent."
"He’d given them the treatment. He’d come down on them so hard, they were scared to whisper in his presence."
"The dying dog seemed to sense the child’s danger."
"‘Anyway, the crumpet’s good.’ Harris smiled to himself."
"‘I’ve been bitten,’ Keogh grudgingly replied."
"‘Look, we’ll probably overcome this problem before anything else occurs,’ Tunstall leaned forward."
"No, it seems impossible, doesn’t it? A post mortem is already being carried out to see if Keogh was suffering from any other illness at the time."
"‘You couldn’t fuck a polo mint with that, you daft old sod,’ she cried."
"‘We’ll get a search party down there immediately,’ Foskins told him."
"No, you go get the police. I’ll find out where they’re going to and I’ll know how to handle them when I do. I’m no hero, but it’s bloody commonsense, ain’t it?"
"I’m just sick of it, Jude. For people to die senselessly like that in this day and age. It’s crazy."
"Suddenly Harris relaxed, his natural defence when events became too much to take."
"He smiled at Judy. ‘Let’s get away from it at the weekend, eh?’"
"‘Maybe I could get a position in a school outside London,’ mused Harris."
"You make any more offers like that, Harris, and I’ll make you stick to them."
"He climbed in beside Judy and drew her warm body towards him. ‘I wish we could stay longer. I’m going to hate going back.’"
"No, darling. You just came into contact with too many people at the wrong time and in the wrong place."
"What’s happened to its inscrutability now? It’s scared. Of me!"
"The sight of him grovelling on the floor like a frightened child would stay in his mind for a long time."
"For no apparent reason, they let him pass without harm."
"Old bomb-sites had been neglected since the war; houses that were condemned for years still remained standing."
"He accepted responsibility and resigned, knowing it was expected of him."
"Poisons were laid in cellars, gardens and dustbins, killing small rats, mice and many household pets."
"Although the pest-control companies were meant to be working together on counter measures against the apparent rat invasion, each tried to out-do the other in finding the solution."
"The government urged them to remain calm - the situation was firmly under control."
"The attacks continued and more people died from injuries or disease, or both."
"He wasn’t really that necessary he’d hardly call his help invaluable."
"If we don’t kill the bloody things soon, they’ll over-run the whole city."
"The diseased corpses were gathered up in bulk and loaded into lorries and taken to incinerators where they were reduced to harmless dust."