fleas Quotes

“We’re just living on the edge of somebody else’s [civilization], like fleas on a dog’s back. If the dog drowns, the fleas drown, too.”

“A wakeful flea on a slumbering mouse on a snoozing car on a dozing dog on a dreaming child on a snoring granny on a cozy bed in a napping house, where everyone is sleeping.”

“He was sure the crafty old witch planned to fix him for good. If she could shrink him down to a runt of a thing she could turn him into a tadpole, or into a flea, or make him disappear altogether.”