They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.

The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.

"I call them april babies cause they fools"