" The real point is this: We don't know where to go because we don't know what we are. Do you want to go back to living in a sewer-pipe? And eating other people's garbage? Because that's what rats do. But the fact is, we aren't rats anymore. We are something Dr. Schultz has made. Something new. "

― Robert C. O'Brien , Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)