Patrick Jennings Quotes

#1. Life in a box was unbearable.
How did humans stand it?

Patrick Jennings

#2. You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.
Humans don't like that.
They view it as a sign of ingratitude.
I never asked anyone to feed me.
That doesn't seem to matter to them.

Patrick Jennings

#3. What is with these guys?
Where's the thrill in watching snakes eat?
I certainly didn't thrill in watching humans eat.

Patrick Jennings

#4. Sometimes fear and confusion can blunt your perceptions. You become so driven to make sense of things, to identify the dangers lurking around the next corner, that you neglect to see the wonders all around you.

Patrick Jennings

#5. So I'd been captured? So I was starving?
Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die?
I could still slither. I could still hiss.
Nothing had been stolen from me except my freedom.
What I needed was a new plan.

Patrick Jennings

#6. I was familiar with humans at this point only from afar, but even from there, I found them a pitiable species: scaleless, fangless, clawless, nearly furless, wingless, venomless, witless.
I honestly didn't understand how they had thrived so.

Patrick Jennings