“Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.”

“But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.”

“Impoverished Paris Street Merchant (Jack Carter): Rats, rats for sale. Get your rats. Good for rat stew, rat soup, or the ever-popular ratatouille.”

“Rats in paradise! Rats in paradise!”

“She called me a rat.’ ‘Oh yes, I gathered you two were very close!”

“Despite all my rage
I am still just a rat in the cage.”

“If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.”

“You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.”

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”