# Quote — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

> We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"

- Author: [Hunter S. Thompson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson.md)
- Book: [Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas_(1971)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas/we-were-somewhere

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